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Total number of records: 5188

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Books and printed items4282
Archives737
Art items153
Objects11

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection5188
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5188

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies1200
romani language105
letters40
romani poetry35
folklore33
tales29
english language28
cant26
irish travellers (nomadic people)25
world war, 1939-194525

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PlaceCount
England108
Spain46
Hungary43
Great Britain38
Romania26
Cumbria24
Europe19
Greece18
Scotland18
Germany17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Lawson, Fred67
Glover, Stephen (1813-1870)61
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)58
Nelson, S (1800-1862)48
Dorothy Una Clough45
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips45
Dorothy Una Phillips45
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)45
National Gypsy Education Council40
Gypsy Lore Society39

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From 160060
From 1700160
From 18001132
From 19003193
From 200038

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Up to 169930
Up to 1799121
Up to 18991049
Up to 19993122
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The University of Leeds review

University of Leeds

v.6, no.1 June 1958 Two copies. Includes (pp. 51-60) 'The University's Romany collection', by John S. Andrews

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Romany Collection (Brotherton Collection)

One of the outstanding resources in the United Kingdom for the study of Gypsies and Travellers. Originally assembled by Lord Brotherton's niece-in-law, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Mrs McGrigor Phillips), a...

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A parish book of Grindleton & Sawley, prepared during the one hundred and fiftieth year of the parish church of St. Ambrose, 1955

Grindleton (England). Parish Church of St. Ambrose

[1955]

Mention of F.G. Ackerley, vicar 1905-25, and as an authority on Gypsy lore.

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Gypsy politics and traveller identity

Acton, T A

1997

"Companion volume to: Romani culture and Gypsy identity"--T.p.

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Romani rokkeripen to-divvus : the English Romani dialect and its contemporary social, educational and linguistic standing

Acton, T A; Kenrick, Donald

1984

English and Romani. Title on spine: Romani rokkeripen todivvus.

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My life with the gipsies

Adler, Marta

c1960

"First published in German by Carl Schunemann Verlag under the title "Mein Schicksal waren die Zigeuner" - t.p. verso.

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"Down to the grass roots" : problems of establishing Gypsy playgroups

Taylor, Sue; Advisory Committee for the Education of Romany and other Travellers

[1973]

Report prepared for and printed by ACERT. Catalogued from cover, on which the title is corrected in MS from "... Gipsy playgrounds".

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Zigeunermärchen

Block, Martin (1891-1972); Ipsen, Johannes; Aichele, Walther

1926

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