Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Witton-le-Wear Response Book]
Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the house and housekeeping. The answers of informant Will...
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
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Cheesemaking: Ladling off Whey
Mrs. M. E. Scott ladling off whey from the curd and making sure no slip-curds (slips) are left, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). A loose-wov...
Notes [Haltwhistle Response Book]
Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants. Includes phonetic notes on the dialect o...
A Descriptive and Historical Study of the Dialect of Netherton
A study of the dialect spoken in the Worcestershire village of Netherton, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with six local people. ...
Horse Dosing Iron
Informant at the Vicarage, Danby (North Yorkshire) holding horse dosing iron used for holding the horse's mouth open when administering medicine. The ...
Two Generations of the Dialect of Kibblesworth, County Durham: A Synchronic Comparison
A study of the dialect spoken in Kibblesworth, County Durham, based on interviews conducted with two male informants (aged sixty-nine and twenty-one) ...
Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold of a farmer standing in the washpool to hold a sheep in. One ...
Easter Egg Survey
This file contains items relating to the Folk Life Survey questionnaire on Easter Egg traditions. The survey appears to have been organised and conduc...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Wilf Isherwood [David Goulburn also present], recorded in January 1975 at home in Antrobus, talks about soul-caking and how Antrobus acquired the hors...
Survey of English Dialects File 8
“SED - Lectures”. Harold Orton’s ms. notes, a newspaper cutting on Louis Lucien Bonaparte from the Times (3 July 1961), and hand-outs including exampl...