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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...
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...
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...
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...
Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs
1957-1973
This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...