[4] In 1997, CECTAL was renamed the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT).
[5] In collaboration with colleagues at the Institute of Dialect and Folklife Studies, Widdowson played a significant role in the Survey of English Dialects, being co-editor of the Survey's Linguistic Atlas of England (1978)[6] and co-author of its Dictionary and Grammar (1994).
[7] He was also the lead for sites in England and in English-speaking areas of Wales for the Atlas Linguarum Europae for the initial period of cassette-recorded interviews.
[10] It is an alphabetical listing of "British and Irish material [...] its primary focus is on printed books relevant to the study of folklore in England.
[15] In 2016, Folklore published an article by Widdowson, 'New Beginnings: Towards a National Folklore Survey', which called for leading organizations to "undertake a comprehensive survey of the rich variety of traditions in our present-day multicultural society".