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Total number of records: 354

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	249
Books and printed items	80
Objects	16
Art items	9

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	73
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	45
English Literature	25
Herbert Read Collection	3
Leeds Poetry	2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
english poetry	4
country life	3
romanies	3
english drama	2
english literature	2
letters	2
arts	1
children's literature	1
cultural anthropology	1
diaries	1

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Yorkshire (England)	4
Greece	3
Wensleydale (England)	3
Gorey	2
Ireland	2
Brough	1
Cumbria	1
Dingle	1
England	1
Iceland	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Dorothy Una Clough	354
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips	354
Dorothy Una Phillips	354
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)	354
Halliday, Wilfrid Joseph	25
Lawson, Fred	16
Pauline Benson Clough	14
Pauline Ida Clough	14
Young, Pauline Clough	14
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una	9

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	3
From 1800	27
From 1900	316

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	1
Up to 1999	344
Up to latest	2

Archive Collection

George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1840-1913

Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...

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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Archive

Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)

1902-1971

Comprises: (a) 5 boxes of autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Wilfrid Gibson's poems and plays, and some groups of correspondence between Gibson and various literary figures and publishers, ...

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Hugh MacDiarmid, autograph manuscript of 'A drunk man looks at the thistle', together with other literary papers and some letters.

MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892-1978)

c.1925-1960

Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript of MacDiarmid's poem 'A drunk man looks at the thistle', including title with epigraph, dedication, and foreword, with, also pasted in, a photograph by Benno Schotz...

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Brotherton-Ratcliffe Collection

Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930); Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

1579-2010

Industrialist and politician Lord Brotherton of Wakefield (1856-1930) is one of the University Library's most significant benefactors. In the 1920s, assisted by his niece-in-law, the writer and activi...

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Romany Collection

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

c.1551 - c.2007

Archive and print items referencing the history, culture and representation of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Consists of three sub-collections; 1) Romany 1: The col...

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Archive Sub-collection

Romany Collection (1)

c.1551 - 1971

Items collected by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (DUR) as part of her "Gypsy Library/Romany Collection." Includes a wide range of manuscripts, letters, typescripts, press cuttings, photographs, music, objec...

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