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Total number of records: 7

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
Brotherton Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

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religion7
community life4
culture4
english language - dialects4
manners and customs4
agriculture3
associations, institutions, etc3
occupations3
animals2
education2

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Bennett, George1
Clarke, William1
Dorothy Una Clough1
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips1
Dorothy Una Phillips1
Dunn, Ginette1
Green, R J1
Gypsy Williams1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1

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Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Margaret Howell, recorded at home in Snape on the 3 October 1974. General conversation covering song sheets, her sons, Christmas carols, remembering a particular song and her health; sings 'On the Ban...

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St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art

Green, R J

1964

M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1955

Will Clarke, recorded in Stanbridge; talks about his daughter's move from Stanbridge to Hertfordshire [his daughters, Mrs. W. Urquhartand Mary Cooper, and sons-in-law William Cooper and Mr. W. Urquhar...

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Archive File

Photographs, printed material and correspondence between Gypsy Williams and Dorothy Una Ratcliffe.

c.1940

Items and correspondence from christian missionary Gypsy [Ernest Albert] Williams sent and sold to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (DUR).

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Archive Sub-series

National & International Missions to Gypsies, Travellers & Roma; the papers of William Webb

c.1948 - 1958

Papers relating to the work and establishment of national and international religious missions working with [Gypsy, Travellers & Roma] communities. These include but are not limited to; The Church of ...

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