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Total number of records: 125

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Archives95
Books and printed items27
Art items2
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections125
Brotherton Collection123

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
gypsies6
country life5
brothers and sisters3
conflict of generations3
crime3
loss (psychology)3
rogues and vagabonds3
vendetta3
water mills3
young women3

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England125
Cumbria26
Appleby15
Kent9
Dartford7
West Yorkshire7
Brough6
Somerset6
Hertfordshire5
Scotland5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Lee Family6
Alfred C Phillips5
Boswell Family5
Howitt, William (1792-1879)5
Vowles, Alfred Charles5
Bowers Family4
Smith Family4
Stables, Gordon (1840-1910)4
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-17733
Cowles, Frederick Ignatius (1900-)3

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From 17001
From 180019
From 1900105

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Up to 189916
Up to 1999107
Up to latest2

Archive Collection

Papers of Diana Allen, Gypsy and Traveller Rights Campaigner.

Allen, Diana (1916-2007)

c.1967-2007

Includes correspondence, newspaper cuttings, research papers, reports, copies of minutes and publications relating to Gypsies and Travellers collected by Diana Allen.

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Papers of Jenny Smith, (Gypsy and Traveller Rights Campaigner)

Smith, Jenny

c.1985 - c.2017

Papers created and reference material collected in the course of Jenny Smith's work campaigning on behalf of Gypsies and Travellers in Bristol area and nationally (UK). Concerns various UK laws, (...

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T.W. Thompson Collection (Gypsy and Traveller related tales and research material)

Thompson, Thomas William

c.1890 -1964

Manuscript and research notes made by T. W Thompson of tales recounted by Gypsies and Travellers and information gathered during these encounters, (notes on language, customs, familial connections, bi...

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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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Robert M.Dawson Collection

Dawson, Robert (1944-)

c.1947-1970

Press cuttings and card indexes relating to Gypsies and Travellers.

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Archive Collection

Donald Kenrick Collection (Papers of the National Gypsy Council)

c.1963- c.1971

Papers (mainly relating to the establishment and work of the Gypsy Council) and print items referencing Gypsies, Travellers and Roma as deposited by Donald Kenrick.

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Archive Series

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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Archive Sub-series

Phillips (Alfred Charles). “Fern Picking Gypsies." “Fern-picking Gypsies”

Vowles, Alfred Charles

31/Mar/1955

Typescript (6 page) account of “Fern-picking Gypsies” -an account of events in mid 1940s of some Gypsy/Travellers picking ferns from National Trust land at Dunkery, Exmoor for sale to fishmongers ...

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Diaries

c.1912 - c.1917

Mainly loose typescript notes (many fragments) as diary accounts of travels (many visits to horse fairs) and meeting with Gypsies and Travellers. Many have annotations/corrections. Includes some hand...

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Cowles (Frederick Ignatius), Letters to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

Cowles, Frederick Ignatius (1900-)

28/07/1939 - 08/08/1939

2 typed and signed.letters from Frederick Cowles introducing himself to Mrs Phillips, (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) as a friend of Dr Endre Spur (Hungary) just returned from his visit to Gypsy/Traveller ca...

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Fitzgerald (Brian Seymour Vesey-), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

Vesey-FitzGerald, Brian Seymour (1900-)

24/06/1956

Letter from author, Brian Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald to DUR (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) with offer of law book used by George Borrow.

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John (Augustus Edwin), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

09/06/1956

Letter from Augustus John referencing the work of the artist Eryl Vize,

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