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Total number of records: 3280

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3258
Books and printed items21
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3194
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman61
Brotherton Collection11
Herbert Read Collection10
Leeds Russian Archive6
English Literature2
University Archive1
Rudolf Laban Collections1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3280
english language - dialects1988
community life1100
occupations1002
manners and customs727
folk music694
nature661
buildings536
folklore506
persons501

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England34
Northumberland29
Lowick11
Embleton11
Italy8
Germany6
Spain3
Ireland2
Milan2
Russia2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)278
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)260
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)150
Russell, Ian98
Dunn, Ginette85
Voitl, Herbert72
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)71
Sullivan, Keith Frederick68
Fothergill, George William48
Langhorne, Richard43

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180011
From 19003238
From 200031

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18992
Up to 19993226
Up to latest52

Archive Collection

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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Archivists' Papers

1955-1992

Throughout most of its lifetime, the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) employed an archivist to manage its archive and library of dialect and folklife collections, created through the...

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Orton Corpus

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1928-2003

Manuscript and typescript items relating to the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects conducted by Harold Orton during his time at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These items include fieldwork and r...

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Folk Life File

1836-1998

This subfonds constitutes the Folk Life File, an archival resource actively created throughout the lifetime of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), probably in relation to its Folk ...

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The Linguistic Atlas of England

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960-1980

This subfonds contains papers relating to the preparation, editing and publication of text and maps for 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). It includes editorial notes and papers; ms. and typescr...

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Survey of English Dialects

1893-1995

This subfonds contains Harold Orton's SED and academic related papers, and items concerning the elicitation, collection, collation and publication of English dialect data. The published data, hereafte...

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A Word Geography of England

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1970-1977

This subfonds includes items relating to the production of 'A Word Geography of England' (WGE), the first linguistic atlas based on the Survey of English Dialects to be published. It consists of edito...

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Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-mid 1970s]

This subfonds contains a collection of maps that cannot be specifically linked with either the Survey of English Dialects (SED) publication programme, or with the activities of the Institute of Dialec...

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Non-Student Research Papers

[1880] - 1992

This subfonds contains provenanced and unprovenanced papers, created and collected by students, academics and other researchers and informants from outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studi...

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Non-Institute Surveys

[1928]-1985

The folklore, folklife and linguistic surveys represented in this subfonds were initiated and co-ordinated by research institutes, universities and individuals in Europe and North America. Items relat...

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Fieldwork

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1945-1974

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionna...

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Funding

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1946-1970

Harold Orton's preliminary enquiries of academic, charitable and commercial trusts regarding Research Awards/sponsorship to support the work of fieldworkers and editorial team members. Those organisat...

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