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Total number of records: 43

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Books and printed items26
Archives17

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Brotherton Collection24
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections12
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3

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wills7
charities2
gypsies2
historic buildings2
manners and customs2
architecture1
country homes1
country life1
exhibition catalogs1
folklore1

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Leeds (England)8
Pitminster5
Somerset5
Cumbria3
Wales3
West Yorkshire3
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France2
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Brigg, William (1858-1921)7
Church of England. Province of Canterbury7
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)7
Lee Family6
Lee, Leonard Henry5
Wright, John T5
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Boswell Family2
Cates, Adolphus H2
Collier, William Henry2

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Archive Item

C. Tales from Johnny Smith and Muli and Terence Lee

1914-1924

8 tales from Johnny Smith and Muli and Terence Lee collected in Lake district (UK) 1914-24. 1) "The fish of gold" 2)"Silly Jack's rewards and what he did with them," 3)"Jack's wonderful bargains,...

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Photographs (2) of Mrs N.Wood at Lee Gap Fair.1939

Yorkshire Post

24 Aug 1939

2 x black and white photographs of a woman mounted on an album page with accompanying typed text: "Mrs N. Wood, one of the Caravan Colony at Lee Gap Fair, West Ardsley; wearing her necklet decorated ...

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B. "Lying tales, drolls and Clods tales."

1919-1924

Exercise book of handwritten accounts of tales of Appy Boswell and Lander Lee, [Smith] collected from various sources, (Lee, Smith and Boswell families) mainly around the Derbyshire area during period...

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"Gypsies Warning."

7/Oct/1961-18/May/1963

Scene of Gypsy Traveller [Lee Family] facing eviction, shouting to someone out of vehicle window.

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"Gypsies Evicted"

7/Oct/1961

Scene of Gypsy Traveller [Lee Family] facing eviction, - on top of wagon used for fortune-telling with police below.

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Archive Item

Jenkinson (A, Stephen). Letter to Mrs Phillips,

29/04/1941

Typed and signed letter referencing wartime, a member of the Lee family previously referenced and literary works on Gypsies and Travellers.

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Archive Piece

Book II: Farming [Pitminster Response Book]

Wright, John T

29 Apr 1956 - 3 May 1956

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to farming.

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Archive Piece

Book III: Animals [Pitminster Response Book]

Wright, John T

29 Apr 1956 - 3 May 1956

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to animals.

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Loidis and Elmete, or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede, and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale : together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)

1816-[1820]

Running title: History of Leeds. Paging irregular: p. 73* and 74* inserted after p. 73 and 74 respectively, p. 327* -328* after p. 326; p. 85-88 of the appendix numbered 77-80 respectively. The ap...

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Loidis and Elmete, or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede, and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale : together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)

1816-[1820]

Running title: History of Leeds. Paging irregular: p. 73* and 74* inserted after p. 73 and 74 respectively, p. 327* -328* after p. 326; p. 85-88 of the appendix numbered 77-80 respectively. The ap...

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Loidis and Elmete, or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede, and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale : together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)

1816-[1820]

Running title: History of Leeds. Paging irregular: p. 73* and 74* inserted after p. 73 and 74 respectively, p. 327* -328* after p. 326; p. 85-88 of the appendix numbered 77-80 respectively. The ap...

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Loidis and Elmete, or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede, and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale : together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)

1816-[1820]

Running title: History of Leeds. Paging irregular: p. 73* and 74* inserted after p. 73 and 74 respectively, p. 327* -328* after p. 326; p. 85-88 of the appendix numbered 77-80 respectively. The ap...

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