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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...
Artefacts
[1950-1970]
Material artefacts collected by staff (and students?) of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), including a scud winder, a decorated egg and two sets of printing matrices.
Film
[1960-1976]
Film and stills on traditional ropemaking and clog-making from Sam Hanna's series of films on traditional English crafts; film taken during a trip by members of staff of the Institute of Dialect and F...
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...
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...
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...
Institute Staff Papers
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies
1952-1983
This subfonds contains papers created and collected by members of staff at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), and includes correspondence; papers relating to the research interest...
Student Research Papers
1942-1992
The items in this subfonds present original research in Folklore and Folklife Studies, English Language and Dialectology. The subject areas covered include custom and belief, traditional narratives, t...
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...
Photographic Collections
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies
[1950-1984]
This subfonds comprises the photographic collections held at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), and includes photographs, slides, negatives and microfilm. The Folk Life Survey e...
Sound Recordings
1920s-1981
This subfonds contains both original and master copy fieldwork recordings, made primarily in England by fieldworkers collecting dialect data for the country-wide English Dialect Survey (later publishe...
Videos (Wedding Services and Receptions, Leeds)
Neale, Brenda Ann
1976-1977
The video recordings in this subfonds were collected by a single collector, Brenda Neale, for her PhD thesis, 'Getting Married: An Ethnographic and Bibliographic Study' (Leeds, 1985). The recordings w...