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Total number of records: 1054

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Brotherton Collection1054
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1054

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies190
folklore15
romani language13
cant8
folk songs, english8
minorities8
english language7
romani poetry7
ballads, english6
crime6

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PlaceCount
Great Britain13
Europe10
United States10
England7
Bulgaria5
Germany4
New Forest (England : Forest)4
Spain4
Ethiopia3
France3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Gypsy Lore Society24
Association Des Etudes Tsiganes22
Uhlik, Rade21
Azpiazu, Jose De (1912-1986)18
National Gypsy Education Council15
Courthiade, Marcel14
Hancock, Ian F13
British and Foreign Bible Society12
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)11
Great Britain11

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From 170038
From 1800127
From 1900415
From 20005

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Up to 1899138
Up to 1999402
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The University of Leeds review

University of Leeds

v.6, no.1 June 1958 Two copies. Includes (pp. 51-60) 'The University's Romany collection', by John S. Andrews

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Romany Collection (Brotherton Collection)

One of the outstanding resources in the United Kingdom for the study of Gypsies and Travellers. Originally assembled by Lord Brotherton's niece-in-law, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Mrs McGrigor Phillips), a...

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Gypsy politics and traveller identity

Acton, T A

1997

"Companion volume to: Romani culture and Gypsy identity"--T.p.

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Reminiscences of Canon D.M.M. Bartlett

Bartlett, Donald M M (1873-1969); Wilkinson, A M

1969

Chapter 5 (pp. 73-79) is on "Gypsies".

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The traveller-gypsies

Okely, Judith (1941-)

1983

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Gypsies : the hidden Americans

Sutherland, Anne

1975

A detailed sociological, ethnographic study of a group in Barvale, California.

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The Pariah syndrome : an account of Gypsy slavery and persecution

Hancock, Ian F; Hancock, Ian F

1987

"A corrected and expanded version of a monograph called 'Land of pain'", privately circulated by the author in 1982, and based on a collection of texts, mainly translated by Hancock.

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Romany magic

Bowness, Charles

1973

Includes a glossary of Romany words, pp.[89]-90.

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