Ryedale Folk Museum

Don't miss our fantastic World War II enactment weekend this Saturday and Sunday. There will be Second World War displays and enactments throughout the site - including Land Army girls, 1940s sweet shop, model aeroplanes display, Army and Paras camp, Soviet Field Hospital, French Resistance fighters, Naval Commandos, Home Guard, grenade throwing and landmine clearing (!) and more - plus new this year 1940s hairdressing and '40s singing and dance by Kirkham Henry Performing Arts School.

Live period demonstrations all this weekend at Ryedale Folk Museum with the No Name Group ! They will be covering more than one period of traditional ways of living and crafts over the weekend - drop in to travel back in time ..... This is a video of a previous encampment by the re-enactors at our Museum  when they were living as Romans, Saxons and Vikings - 

This is the final post on the Dialect Questionnaire Project conducted by the University of Leeds in partnership with Ryedale Folk Museum. 158 respondents completed the questionnaire. Scroll down to see the words that no one selected… Would you have used any of the following words? If you haven’t drunk anything for a long time, you will be very... No one selected: DROUGHTY or PADDOCKED If you haven’t eaten any food for a long time, you will be very... No one selected: CLAMMED OUT, PINED or WALLOW What do you call something that you eat between meals? No one selected: BAGGINGS, BITE OF TEN O'CLOCK, BITING-ON, MINNING-ON, CLOCKS, CROUST, DOWAN, FORENOON-DRINKINGS or PACKING What do you say you’ve got when your head hurts? No one selected: THE HEADACHE What do you call a very small piece of wood that has got into your finger? No one selected: SHIVE, SPLICE, SPOAL or STOB What do you call any running water smaller than a river? No one selected: SIKE Scroll down to view the bar charts an...

So, the results are in! 158 respondents completed the Dialect Questionnaire Project between 27 March and 18 April 2012. The Dialect Questionnaire is a project conducted by Ryedale Folk Museum and the School of English at the University of Leeds. Scroll down to see a comparison between responses from 1955 and 2012 by respondents  associated with the southern area of the North York Moors in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The 1955 responses come from the Survey of English Dialects. The Survey has four data collection sites in this area: Helmsley, Easingwold, Borrowby and Bedale. See the map below. The 2012 responses come for this dialect questionnaire project sited at Ryedale Folk Museum. A comparison between the two sets of words can hint at the ways in which the usage of dialect words changes over time. Words shown in green have been selected by the 2012 respondents but not by the 1955 respondents. Words shown in red have been selected by the 1955 respondents but not by the 2012 r...

So, the results are in! 158 respondents completed the Dialect Questionnaire Project between 27 March and 18 April 2012. Who completed the Dialect Questionnaire? What is your relationship to Ryedale Folk Museum? The pie chart below shows that the majority of respondents are visitors to Ryedale Folk Museum. Are you male or female? The pie chart below shows that the majority of respondents are female. How old are you? The bar chart below shows that the majority of respondents are aged between 41 and 50 years old. 61 to 70 year olds come a close second. And, children aged between 4 and 10 years old rank third. Where do you come from? The map below shows that visitors came from countires as far a field as Argentina, India, Turkey, Germany and Scotland. The red areas of the map below show that visitors travelled from many different counties in England to visit Ryedale Folk Museum. The majority of visitors, 52%, came from the county of Yorkshire to visit Ryedale Folk Museum. Coming next on Ry...

The map below shows the distance from Helmsley (B) to Ryedale Folk Museum (A).                 A male Helmsley resident answered the questions below using the following words in the 1950s .   Question: If you haven’t drunk anything for a long time, you will be very... Answer(s): dry or thirsty Question: What is left at the bottom of your teacup when you’ve finished drinking the tea? Answer: tea-leaves Question: If you haven’t eaten any food for a long time, you will be very... Answer: hungry Question: What do you call something that you eat between meals? Answer: lowance             Question: What do you say you’ve got when your head hurts? Answer: the headwark Question: What do you call a very small piece of wood that has got into your finger? Answer: spell Question: What do you call any running water smaller than a river? Answer: beck He was a respo...

If you've taken part in the Dialect Questionnaire Project: here's a quick reminder. If you didn't take part and you're interested in the project then just for fun: scroll down and think about which words you would use. There are a list of multiple-choice answers for each question. There are no right or wrong answers. It is your opinion. 1. If you haven’t drunk anything for a long time, you will be very... clammed up o  droughty o   dry o   gegged o   paddocked o   parched up o   thirsty o     other  o 2.  What is left at the bottom of your teacup after drinking your  tea? dregs o grogs o tea-grains o tea-grounds o tea-leaves o tea-slops o monkeys o   slop o other o 3. If you haven’t eaten any food for a long time, you will be very... clammed out o clammish o famished o famishing o gant o hungered o hungry o  pined o wallow o yap o other o 4. What do you call something that you eat be...

The Dialect Questionnaire is a student language project conducted at Ryedale Folk Museum in partnership with the University of Leeds Dialect Studies Course. When and where? The project was located in the Manor House at Ryedale Folk Museum for 3 weeks from Tuesday 27 March to Wednesday 18 April 2012. Visitors were asked what words they would use for some common things - eg a stream, feeling hungry, having a headache etc. What happened? 158 respondents completed the questionnaire. Thank you very much to everyone who took the time and effort to take part! What happens next? The results of the questionnaire will be posted on this website. Please pop back and check out the results later this week! If you missed it, this is what the project is all about: I am Christina Hughes, an English Language student at the University of Leeds. I am interested in mapping words to regions in England. My questionnaire focuses on the variety of words used for a range of concepts. The concepts are related to...

Take a look at local artist Wendy Greenwood Raku firing on site. To Raku fire you put a glazed pot and take it up to 1000 degree C. You then quench it in water or another combustable material. Shown at the end of the film is a technique called Horse hair Raku, where you put the pot in the kiln until hot enough for the horse hair to melt into the pot and not just burn away. Wendy is holding a few courses using the technique through the year for the museum: Make &Fire Your Own Pot Booked as a two session course Tues 5th June 1-3pm & Tues 19th June 12.30-3.30pm Make and fire your own handmade pot using the traditional Raku Technique. A two session course split over two weeks to allow your pot to dry and be bisque before firing. In session one you will build your own pot and have a go at using the kick wheel, and in session two you will get to glaze and fire your pot to then take home! £25 per person, includes all materials and entry to the museum Glaze and Fire a Pot (pot...

Our new evening programme begins with a talk on our current Gallery exhibition