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Total number of records: 43

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture7
community life7
english language - dialects6
occupations5
animals4
wealth4
buildings4
nature4
food3
persons3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Monmouthshire33
England33
Newport11
Cross Keys11
Llanfrechfa11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Parry, David (1937-)43
Jones, Mr Reginald12
Price, Mrs Elizabeth10
Chas)9
Hemmings, Charles9
Jenkins, Mr Horace6
Parker, Jim6
Hemmings, Mrs Elsie5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
John, Mrs3

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Radnorshire, Breconshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire

Parry, David (1937-)

1964

M.A. thesis based on fieldwork carried out in 1960 in sixteen localities in Radnorshire, Breconshire, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. For part of the Monmouthshire material, the collector draws on t...

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LAE Editorial Notes and Papers

Powell, Susan

1970s

This file contains typed, photocopied and ms. notes from Linguistic Atlas of England editorial meetings; lists of notions of LAE maps, including phonological notions and ones based on questions from t...

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Monmouthshire Response Books

Sykes, Donald Richard; Parry, David (1937-)

1955-1960

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Monmouthshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were...

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SED Fieldworkers Map

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Printed map showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Michael Barry, Howard Berntsen, Stanley Ellis, W. Nelson Francis, Peter Gibson, Marie Haslam, David Parry, Averil Playford, Donald Sykes, Jo...

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Cross Keys Response Book - 23Mon4
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Cross Keys Response Book - 23Mon4

Parry, David (1937-)

Jul 1960

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Llanfrechfa Response Book - 23Mon5
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Llanfrechfa Response Book - 23Mon5

Parry, David (1937-)

Jun 1960

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Newport Response Book - 24Mon7
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Newport Response Book - 24Mon7

Parry, David (1937-)

Aug 1960

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

1965

Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Parry, David (1937-); Kylstra, Henk E

1960-1961

[Collector announcement (Parry)]; Tom John, recorded in Pontlottyn [possibly in 1960]; talks about horse feed; straw rope; (Welsh) calls to cattle and horses; farm waggons/carts; ploughing and the qua...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Parry, David (1937-); Kylstra, Henk E

1960-1961

Copy of tape LAVC/SRE/A827r.

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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