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Total number of records: 8

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Brotherton Collection8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections8

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country life1
crime and criminals1
folk-lore, gipsy1
kidnapping1
nawar1
nuri dialect1
prostitution1

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Clwyd (Wales)1
Holywell (Wales)1
Wales1
Whiteford (Wales)1

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Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-17731
Crofton, Henry Thomas1
Crofton, Henry Thomas (1848-)1
Fielding, Henry, 1707-17541
Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford (1866-1960)1
Gypsy and Folk-Lore Club (London)1
Gypsy Lore Society1
Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1870-1950)1
Olivier, Edith (1879-1948)1
Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)1

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English-Gypsy vocabulary : or index to the principal words and roots in the Gypsy-English vocabulary and its roots

Smart, Bath Charles; Crofton, Henry Thomas (1848-); Gypsy and Folk-Lore Club (London)

1912

Reprinted from the "Dialect of the English gypsies", by B.C. Smart and H.T. Crofton, London, 1875.

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Printing block of"A Gypsy Woman of Metzovo"

c.1938

A) Printing block B) Copy print of the image - stamped with date 21 Sep 1939 by printer, T&A Constable, Edinburgh.

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The history of the parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell

Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)

1796

Anonymous. By Thomas Pennant. The titlepage is engraved. In two parts; 'History of Holywell parish' London, printed for B. and J. White, 1796, has a separate, engraved titlepage and separate regis...

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Correspondence between Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd and Leeds University Library

Mar 1961 - Jun 1964

Correspondence between Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd (usually R.T Cairns, Managing Director) and librarian Mr B. S Page and Sub-librarian, Mr David. I Masson of University of Leeds Library, - concerning th...

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Gipsies in England and India

Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford (1866-1960)

[1887]

Reprinted from "The Indian antiquary", vol. 16, pp. 35-41. A review of "The dialect of the English gypsies", by B.C. Smart and H.T. Crofton, second edition, London, 1875, and of "Accounts of the gyp...

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A letter to the right honourable Earl of ----- : concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning

Ramsay, Allan (1713-1784)

1753

On the supposed kidnapping of Elizabeth Canning; rebuts Henry Fielding's book which supports Canning. Author's name from NUC pre-1956 and BM cited below. Signatures: [A]² B-D⁸ E⁶. [1] p. bl...

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Country moods and tenses : a non-grammarian's chapbook

Olivier, Edith (1879-1948)

1941

"First published September, 1941".

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The language of the Nawar or Zutt, the nomad smiths of Palestine

Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1870-1950); Gypsy Lore Society

1914

"This book first appeared serially in the pages of the Journal of the Gypsy lore society, and is here printed from sterotypes."--Pref.

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