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Total number of records: 614

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Books and printed items599
Archives15

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Brotherton Collection107
English Literature48
Leeds Russian Archive32
Quaker Collection21
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections18
Liddle Collection18
Herbert Read Collection16
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society9
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4
Medical Collections4

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world war, 1914-191838
jews26
slavery19
political science13
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monarchy10
society of friends10
romanies8
world war, 1939-19457
furniture6

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United States614
Great Britain110
Canada35
France27
Europe26
Soviet Union24
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)31
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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Up to 1899189
Up to 1999294

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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Archive File

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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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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Oct, 1995, Virginia

Jul 1995 - Nov 1995

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman delivery of lectures "Tourist and Vagabond" and "The Heros and the Victims of Postmodernity" as part of the colloquium series "Postmodernity and the Consciousn...

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Lecture on Potassium and Magnesium Depletion, New York

Jun 1976

Contains manuscript notes, blank note paper and a copy of Clinical Digest, Vol 5, No 1, January 1976, containing an article by Edward Copeland and Stanley Dudrick on 'Intravenous Hyperalimentation as ...

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Archive File

Conference on Human Kidney Transplants, Washington D.C., USA

26 Jul 1963-8 Oct 1963

File relating to the Conference on Human Kidney Transplants, 26-27 September 1963, held by the Committee on Tissue Transplantation of the Division of Medical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences-Nat...

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Conference on Human Kidney Transplants, Washington D.C., USA

7 Oct 1964-3 Oct 1966

Papers relating to Parsons attendence at the Conference on Human Kidney Transplants, 16-17 May 1965, organised by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Division of Medical Scienc...

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Visit to New Zealand and the USA, 1968

19 Sep 1965-13 Nov 1968

Contains papers relating to a trip Frank Parsons made to New Zealand and the USA between 1 August - 20 September 1968, to visit various hospitals, attend events and deliver lectures. The visit inclu...

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White House papers of Harry L. Hopkins : an intimate history (v.2)

Sherwood, Robert E (1896-1955)

[1948-49]

Contents: Vol. 1. Sept. 1939-Jan. 1942.--Vol. 2. Jan. 1942-July 1945.

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