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Total number of records: 24

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Brotherton Collection24
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections23
Herbert Read Collection1

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SubjectCount
tramps24
vagrancy6
romanies4
poor laws3
begging2
poets, english2
poor2
fantasy1
german language1
rogues and vagabonds1

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England1
Great Britain1
Kent (England)1

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People and organisationsCount
Phelan, Jim (1895-1966)3
Beier, A L2
Davies, W H (1871-1940)2
Davies, W. H. (William Henry), 1871-19402
Flekstad, Kaspar2
Great Britain2
Great Britain. Department of Health For Scotland2
Jennings, Frank Leonard (1890-)2
Jennings, Frank Leonard, 1890-2
Ribton-Turner, C J2

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From 190020

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The night-watchmen

Cresswell, Helen; Floyd, Gareth (1940-)

1969

Looking for something to fill his lonely days, a young boy recuperating from a long illness meets two tramps who live in a world that hardly seems real.

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Hard travellin' : the hobo and his history

Allsop, Kenneth (1920-1973)

1972

Originally published, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967.

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The autobiography of a super-tramp

Davies, W H (1871-1940)

1908

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An Exposure of the various impositions daily practised by vagrants of every description

[1842?]

Without the index in the Birmingham edition.

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Men of the lanes : the autobiography of the tramps' parson

Jennings, Frank Leonard (1890-)

1958

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Men of the lanes : the autobiography of the tramps' parson

Jennings, Frank Leonard (1890-)

1958

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We follow the roads

Phelan, Jim (1895-1966)

1949

An account of the author's experiences as a "traveller".

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We follow the roads

Phelan, Jim (1895-1966)

1949

An account of the author's experiences as a "traveller".

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