Search the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Archive Item:
LAVC/SED/2/2/8/2

7 Nov 1955 - 18 Nov 1955

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...

Archive Item:
LAVC/SRE/A844r

1965

An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the m...

Archive Piece:
LAVC/SED/2/2/8/2/1

7 Nov 1955 - 18 Nov 1955

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant Bill Elliot and Harold Taylor recorded by fieldworker Stanley Ellis in t...

Archive Piece:
LAVC/SED/2/2/8/2/10

7 Nov 1955 - 18 Nov 1955

Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants. Includes notes on the locality.

Archive Piece:
LAVC/SED/2/2/8/2/3

7 Nov 1955 - 18 Nov 1955

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to animals.

Archive Piece:
LAVC/SED/2/2/8/2/7

7 Nov 1955 - 18 Nov 1955

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to numbers, time and the weather.