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Total number of records: 45

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Books and printed items32
Archives13

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection45
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections45

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
rogues and vagabonds5
romanies5
islam2
jews2
natural history2
church work with nomads1
english poetry1
fishing1
history1
hops1

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England9
Cumbria8
Appleby6
Balkan Peninsula1
Brough1
Germany1
Hungary1
New Forest (England : Forest)1
Vienna (Austria)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Head, Richard (1637?-1686?)5
Kirkman, Francis5
Kirkman, Francis (1632-1680)5
Cobbold, Richard3
Cobbold, Richard (1797-1877)3
Steggall, John H (1789-)3
Steggall, John H., B. 17893
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)2
Church, Richard (1893-1972)2
Tunnicliffe, C F (1901-1979)2

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From 16002
From 180021
From 190021

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Up to 189915
Up to 199926
Up to latest1

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Blakeborough (Richard Fairfax-), “Topcliffe fair”.

Fairfax Blakeborough, Richard

16/11/1956

1) 3 page typed transcription of broadcast, “Letter from the North Riding” in “The Northcountry-man”, B.B.C. Home Service.

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Notes or correspondence from Richard Hargreaves

c.1940

2 A4 notes or correspondence from Richard Hargreaves identifying him as: 1. the photographer of 9 photographs on postcards of Brampton Hill Horse Fair 1934, Also mention of further 18 photographs a...

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Henry Dry-Bread : the Richard Wade papers

Sherriff, Henry; Dawson, Robert (1944-); Wade, Richard (1926-); Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group

[2001?]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Field and hedgerow : being the last essays of Richard Jefferies

Jefferies, Richard (1848-1887); Jefferies, Mrs J Baden

1889

Reprinted from various periodicals.

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Hargreaves (Richard) 'Report on German Gypsies,[at Brough Hill]' (Transcription)

c.1940

Typescript transcription of a report on 'German Gypsies,' sent by Richard Hargreaves of Nelson, Lancs to DUR, [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe]. Details an account of some German Gypsy/Travellers at Brough Hi...

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Yorkshire life illustrated

v.10, no.11 Nov. 1956

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Photographs (2) of "Gypsies at Horse Fair." Brampton Hill.Appleby.1933.

14 Jun 1933

2 x postcard photographs of campsite scenes titled, "Gypsies at Brampton Hill Horse Fair, Westmorland, June 14. 1933."

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A parish on wheels

Swinstead, J Howard

1897

Limited ed. of 300 copies.

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Photographs (2) of "Gypsies at Horse Fair, Brampton Hill. Appleby.1933.

1933

2 black and white photograph postcards of Gypsy and Traveller families with caption, "Gypsies at the Horse Fair, Brampton Hill, Appleby, Westmorland, 1933."

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Photographs, negatives and associated correspondence. Romany Collection.

c.1931-1960

Box of loose photographs and correspondence labelled, "Romany Collection, prints, photographs, etc." Includes photographs by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Juliette de Bairacli Levy and James Kirkup with ac...

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Balkan roads to Istanbul

Motte, Nel (1902-); Motte, Peter (1901-)

1960

An account of the authors' journey from London, to Istanbul in a British "bubble" car. Nel Motte is a pseudonym used by Eleanor Emily Mayell Harrison.

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