Fieldwork and Research
Description
The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshire and North-East England), dialect and spelling. Orton collected newspaper cuttings, offprints of academic articles and reviews, pamphlets, photocopied articles and pages from academic texts relating to these areas, both as part of his own researches, and later, for use in his teaching. The subseries includes a collection of newspaper cuttings, pasted to paper sheets and covering the 1920s - 1940s. Includes his ms. notes on dialect sources (informants recorded on gramophone disc between 1938 and 1939). This collection also includes a printed version of his lecture, The Dialects of Northumberland, given to the Yorkshire Dialect Society early in 1930; an obituary for Joseph Wrightfrom 'The Times' and articles from German and Swedish newspapers, including some written by Helge Kökeritz. Further items in this subseries include papers relating to the Simplified Spelling Society and the Yorkshire Society for Celtic Studies; a programme for A Northumbrian Night's Entertainment, held at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne(then part of the University of Durham) in December 1923; Orton's draft review of 'Ulster Dialects: An Introductory Symposium', published by Ulster Folk Museum in1964, and edited by G. B. Adams. An enlarged photographic copy of part of Orton's article, 'The Country Speech of England', published in the November 1963 issue of 'The Field', is included in this subseries, as is the 1893 edition of 'Notes on the Orthography of the Ormulum', by Arthur S. Napier. The subseries also contains three copies of the 'Questionnaire on Welsh Folk Culture' (pages 2-7), published in 1937 by the National Museum of Wales; one ring binder containing 'The Craft of Film'(photography), published by Attic Publishing in 1970; and articles by R. W. Blenkinsopp, George Ewart Evans, Arwyn Watkins, Charles C. Fries, Randolph Quirk, David Crystal and Sinclair Eustace. The majority of the items in this subseries were created during the period 1923-1974.
Metadata
| Identifier | m2ywpbjy |
| IRN | 409365 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/1/2 |
| Level | Sub-series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/m2ywpbjy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Harold Orton Papers |
| Creator(s) | Orton, Harold |
| Date | 1893-1974 |
| Size and Medium | 2 boxes of manuscript and printed items., 0.41 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | Broadly chronological. The newspaper cuttings are arranged alphabetically by subject. |