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Brotherton Collection21
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections21

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camping1
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scottish travellers (nomadic people)1
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Macgregor, Alasdair Alpin Douglas (1899-1970)2
Stables, Gordon (1840-1910)2
Alfred C Phillips1
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Chatto, William Andrew (1799-1864)1
Hall, Rev George1
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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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National legislation in Europe relating to Gypsies, Travellers & Roma in European Countries collected by Sir Angus Fraser

1603 -1994

Original and photocopies of documents (statutes and court cases) concerning national laws in England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany relating to Gypsies, Travellers & Roma. 1) Typescript repo...

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Archive Object File

Artificial woodshaving flowers (2)

Jun/1954

Traditional hand crafted flowers made from wood shavings, purchased in "Moffat,(Dumfrieshire)." [Dumfries & Galloway]

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Archive File

McCormick, (Andrew)

McCormick, Andrew

1908-1915

Correspondence sent by Andrew McCormick [solicitor] of Newton Stewart, Scotland. Referencing information about [Scottish] Gypsies and Travellers, including reference to photographic slides/films and m...

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Archive Item

Photographs (2). "Perthshire Tinkler Gypsies."1957.

Vowles, Alfred Charles

13th Sep 1957

2 separate pages, each with a mounted black and white photograph of Gypsy/Traveller women and accompanying notes reccounting Dorothy Una Ratcliffe and A. C. Phillips meeting with them in Perthshire [P...

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Archive Item

Correspondence between William Webb and Mrs McGrigor Phillips

1957-1958

Correspondence between William Webb and Mrs McGrigor Phillips concerning International Gypsy Mission Conferences in 1957 and 1958. 1) Letter William Webb - Mrs McGrigor Phillips 30/Apr/1957 with att...

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Archive Item

Reports on work of the 'Mission to [the] Tinkers'

Jan/1948 - 11/Nov/1954

Typescript reports by William Webb to the Evangelism Committee Home Board of the Church of Scotland on his work as part of the, 'Mission to Tinkers.' Reports detailing Webb's visits to [Gypsy Travel...

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Archive Item

Typescript papers

Webb, William

c.1940 - 1955

7 typescript accounts reflecting on William Webb's visits, people he met and his work for the Mission to [the] Tinkers. Titles include; "Tinker Bill," "Granny Cameron's Pony," "A date in my diary,"...

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Archive Item

Photographs

c.1934-c.1954

6 black and white[copies] photographs [photographer unknown] of [Gypsy and Travellers] in Perthshire,[Perth & Kinross]Scotland. Details of those photographed are noted on the back and listed individua...

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Photographs British Gypsy Mission

c.1961

Set of 10 black and white photographs of individuals and family groups [Gypsy Travellers]. Typed description appears in the bottom left hand of all photographs. These sometime include location and nam...

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Archive Print Item

Rambles in Northumberland, and on the Scottish border; interspersed with brief notices of interesting events in border history

Chatto, William Andrew (1799-1864)

1835

Stephen Oliver the younger = William Andrew Chatto.

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