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Kersey Illustration
[ca. 1938]
Colour illustration of the village of Kersey (Survey of English Dialects (SED) location 22 Sf 5), reprinted from H. Munro Cautley's 'Suffolk Churches and Their Treasures', (Ipswich: Adlard, 1937).
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
November-December 1970
Assembled company singing carols and popular songs in the Bridge pub, Charlton Brook , accompanied on the accordion by Alf Hobson. Recorded 22 November 1970. [Tr. 4]. Assembled company singing carol...
Sound Recordings, New Zealand
Dunn, Ginette
[1973]
Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...
Suffolk Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1958-1959
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Suffolk to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recor...
Lists from the Archive of Folk Song
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
1971-1974
This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
1965
[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; ...
Survey of English Dialects Sound Recording Documentation and Transcriptions
1964-1973
This file contains documentation relating to sound recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), including informant records; and transcriptions of SED sound recordings. These include Mich...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3
1960-1979
This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...
Booklists
1951-1980
These files contain bibliographies, catalogues and related items, collected by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivists and members of staff. The items were originally held in one...
Housekeeping - General
1965-1980
This file contains items relating to housekeeping and domestic arrangements, and associated customs. This includes a photocopy of Edith Martin's 'Do You Know Cornwall?: Chips and Shavings from a Corni...
Trams, Railways and Boats
1967-1973
This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Female sings 'Barbary Ellen' and 'Red Haired Sally' [second in Gaelic]. [Tr. 2] James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); and a clinkin' toad (wa...