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Total number of records: 636

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Archives21

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Brotherton Collection109
English Literature48
Leeds Russian Archive38
Quaker Collection21
Liddle Collection20
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections18
Herbert Read Collection16
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society9
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman5
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4

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world war, 1914-191838
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furniture7

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)35
Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)19
Page, Walter Hines (1855-1918)12
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)11
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)10
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)10
Raynal Abbe (1713-1796)10
St. John De Crevecoeur, J Hector (1735-1813)10
Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?9
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)8

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Archive Collection

Rev George Hall Collection

Hall, Rev George

1908-1918

Correspondence, notebooks, diaries and reports/loose notes documenting Hall's research and information gathering.Mainly concerned with (UK) Gypsy and Traveller biographies and genealogical details.

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Correspondence

1908-1918

Letters addressed to Reverend George Hall (at Ruckland Rectory, Nr. Louth, Lincolnshire) from a number of correspondents across the UK, (one in the USA). Most reference Hall's own and other's literary...

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Dyke (Watson), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

02/05/1940

Handwritten letter (2 pages) from Watson Dyke (Leyburn,Yorkshire) to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe about his encounter with Native Americans in the USA and reference to Gypsies and Travellers in England.

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Stow, (Edith)

15/Dec/1915 - 14/May/1918

Mainly typed letters from Edith Stow of Clyde, New York (USA) to Rev George Hall. References include American Gypsies and Travellers [Roma] and exchange and publication of works on related matters. ...

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Oct, 2001, California (declined)

Mar 2001 - Oct 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's participation in a US conference for the IIS 35th Congress. (Declined)

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Feb, March 1998, Seattle (declined)

Jan 1998 - Mar 1998

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture at "The 28th Annual International Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches" at the University of Washington. The lecture w...

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University of Illinois, May, 1999, Illinois (declined)

Feb 1999 - May 1999

Corresponding concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture as part of a conference on “The stranger, The strange and estrangement” at the University of Illinois in mid May 1999.

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Jan, 2006, New York,

Sep 2005 - Jan 2006

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to an interview in January 2006 about contemporary concerns and the dynamics predominant in human relationships today as part of a documentary film for RAI Itali...

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2004, Ohio

Jan 2004

Zygmunt Bauman polish email correspondence regarding a visiting professorship in Ohio.

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Jun 2001, Hanover, USA

May 2001 - Jun 2001

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to contribute to the conference on "Globalizing the Academy" June 2001. (Dartmouth College)

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June - Oct, 2003, California,

Apr 2003 - Oct 2003

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to a workshop at The University of California between April 2003 and October 2003.

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Jun-Oct 2003, University of California

Apr 2002 - Oct 2002

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to take part in the"Seeing the difference" conference for the Rockefeller Foundation summer 2003. (University of California)

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