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An Investigation into the Play of Children Living in a Traditionally Working Class Area of Back-to-Back Housing Property, in Leeds, in May and June, 1962
Collins, J M Mrs; McKelvie, Donald
1962
A study of schoolchildren at play in Leeds, combining researches in education and folk life by two postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. Mrs. Collins was taking a Diploma in Curricular Stu...
Sound Recording, West Midlands
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tapes LAVC/SRE/A716r and LAVC/SRE/A717r]; talks about butchers' back slang (for animal names/meat cuts and other terms); explains ...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...
Farm Cart Aquatint
[1970s]
Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a view from the back of two farmworkers unloading a basket from a farm cart drawn by a single horse. An old woman stoops next to the cart. Th...
SED Word Map: Left-Handed
[1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question VI.7.13, Left-Handed, mapping responses Gammy-, Watty-, and Back-Handed.
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Interview with male informant in his home in Leeds, recorded as part of the collector's sociolinguistic inquiry in the city. The recording was made using a radio transmitter in the informant's house, ...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...
Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies Staff
[Early 1970s]
Harold Orton (back left) and members of staff standing outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies building. The building is now one of the houses which forms part of the modern School of E...
Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A
27 Jun 1939
[Side 1] Conversation between Joseph, Henry and Jack (mainly inaudible). [Side 2] Edward and John describe working conditions at Acomb Colliery, discuss coal face, fore-shift and back-shift, water in ...
Tom Cornell
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1952-1953]
Survey of English Dialects informant, [Tom Cornell], in the garden of his home. Mr. Cornell's identity is uncertain as the labelling on the back of this photograph has been damaged and is now only par...
Calderdale Pace Eggers
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph of a pace egg play being performed at the Calder Valley Folk Festival, in an unidentified town in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), in 1956. The players are all children (boys). The Do...