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Accents: East of England and English midlands

Additional numbered links are given where there is more than one recording of an interviewee.

East of England

Lincolnshire

Brauncewell

Male; born c.1895; interviewed 1979

Norfolk

Briston

Male; born 1908; interviewed 1980; (2)

King's Lynn

Female; born c.1925; interviewed 1979

Suffolk

Ipswich

Male; born 1931 (in London but grew up in Ipswich); interviewed 1983; (2)

English midlands

Bedfordshire

Luton

Male; born c.1930; interviewed 1986; non-manual; (2)

Male; born c.1930; interviewed 1986; non-manual

Unspecified

Male; born c.1916; interviewed 1980; non-manual

Female; born c.1910; interviewed 1980; non-manual; earlier life in Walsall

Birmingham

Male; born 1903; interviewed 1983; non-manual
Two males; born 1904 and 1905; interviewed c.1982
Female; born 1906; interviewed 1981
Male; born 1908; interviewed 1982
Male; born 1909; interviewed 1981; (2)
Male; born c.1910; interviewed c.1978
Male; born 1911; interviewed 1980
Male; born 1911; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1914; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1921; female; born 1924; interviewed 1983
Male; born c.1925; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1925; interviewed 1983; (2); (3)
Male; born 1926; interviewed 1983; non-manual
Male; born 1926; interviewed 1983
Female; born 1927; interviewed 1983
Female; born 1929 or 1930; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1931; interviewed 1983; (2)
Male; born 1931; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1934; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1936; interviewed 1983 (personal details given from 19m 18s in https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/mss356_7_2_37_ii_side1.mp3)
Male; born 1937; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1943; interviewed 1983
Male; born 1948; interviewed 1983

Coventry

Female; born 1905; interviewed 1984
Male; born c.1905; interviewed c.1980
Male; born 1906; interviewed 1977
Male; born 1910; interviewed 1981
Two females; born 1910 and 1911; interviewed 1984
Female; born 1910; interviewed 1984; (2)
Female; born 1910; interviewed 1984
Male; born 1913; interviewed 1983; non-manual; worked in Birmingham
Female; born 1913; interviewed 1984
Male; born c.1915; interviewed 1980
Female; born c.1917; interviewed 1980; (2)
Female; born c.1920; interviewed 1980
Female; born c.1930; interviewed 1980; (2)
Female; born 1938; interviewed 1980
Female; born 1934; interviewed 1980; non-manual
Female; interviewed 1980; (2)
Female; middle-aged; interviewed 1980; non-manual
Female; middle-aged; interviewed 1980; non-manual; (2)
Female; middle-aged; interviewed 1980; non-manual
Female; middle-aged; interviewed c.1980; non-manual; (2)
Male; middle-aged; interviewed c.1980; (2)
Male; middle-aged; interviewed c.1980
Female; born 1959; interviewed 1980

Northamptonshire

?Northampton

Male; born c.1922; interviewed 1986; non-manual

Nottinghamshire

Bulwell

Male; born 1904; interviewed 1970; non-manual

Nottingham

Male; born 1893; interviewed 1972

Oxfordshire

Oxford

Male; born c.1925; interviewed 1980

Male; born, c.1920; interviewed 1981-1984; (2); (3); (4); (5); (6); (7); (8); (9); (10)

Male; born c.1920; interviewed 1982

Staffordshire

Cannock

Female; born c.1900; interviewed 1979; moved to Bromsgrove in 1924

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Male; born c.1900; interviewed 1980; (2)

Warwickshire

Studley

Male; born c.1910 (family moved to Birmingham c.1914); interviewed 1981; (2)

Worcestershire

Netherton, Dudley

Male; born 1911; interviewed 1981; (2)

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