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Total number of records: 159

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	149
Indexes	8
Books and printed items	2

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	143
Quaker Collection	8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	6
Brotherton Collection	5

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
voting registers	2
civil and political rights	1
gypsies	1
homeless	1
legal decisions	1
nomads	1
protest movements	1
social justice	1

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Somerset	159
England	151
Blagdon	11
Brompton Regis	11
Coleford	11
Horsington	11
Merriott	11
Pitminster	11
Stogumber	11
Stogursey	11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Wright, John T	143
Bryant, Frederick James	11
Fred	11
Hawkins, Mr E J	11
Jim	11
Steeds, Mr James	11
Fisher, Walt	8
Greenslade, George	8
Warner, Sydney Vaughan	8
Bob	7

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1999	150
Up to latest	1

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letter to Mr A.C. Phillips.

29/01/1951

1) Cardboard notice/sign, stencilled: “no gipsies served here”. 2) On headed notepaper of the Gypsy Lore Society letter to AC Phillips regarding his account of the notice and where it was found/...

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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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Phillips (Alfred Cowles) "Exmoor Gypsy Note"

Vowles, Alfred Charles

9/Jul/1949

Handwritten account of a place known as 'Gypsy Corner,' Winsford, (Somerset) as told to the author by a member of the Williams Family. Written in Kinnarstadir, Iceland, 9 July 1949, holograph manusc...

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"Hundreds in Gypsy Queen's funeral in Yeovil."

25/11/1960

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"Romany Tradition in Somerset."

26/Nov/1960

Photograph of people gathered at a Gypsy/Traveller wagon on fire. On the reverse is the following: Typed transcript: " Romany Tradition in Somerset. The ceremonial burning, in true Romany traditio...

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