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Total number of records: 95

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items73
Archives21
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection64
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
English Literature25
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Poetry2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry4
country life3
romanies3
letters2
english literature2
english drama2
sea stories1
religion1
sea poetry1
folk literature1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire (England)4
Wensleydale (England)3
Greece3
Gorey2
Ireland2
Cumbria1
Brough1
QuéBec (Province)1
Marathon1
Iceland1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dorothy Una Clough95
Dorothy Una Phillips95
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips95
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)95
Lawson, Fred15
Hazel, Watson & Viney, Ltd., Printers, London6
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una6
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, 1887-19674
Crowe, Marygold Cecilia4
Austen, John4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18002
From 190093

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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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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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

11 March 1961

1 letter from the poet Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Thomas Blackburn.

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Ratcliffe (Dorothy Una) Letter to the Editor of The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald.

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

05/02/1940

Two typed carbon copies enquiring about the reason for the closure of Brough Hill Fair during wartime.

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Album of photographs and prints collected by DUR.

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

1904-1960

Album containing black and white photographs (originals and reproduction prints) collected by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe of Gypsies/Travellers/Roma in the UK, Ireland, Europe, (Greece, France Hungary) and ...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

5 January 1963

1 ms postcard from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Jon Silkin.

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Archive Print Item

The Book of the Microcosm

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

[1927]

"... A few of the poems, articles, and pictures that [appeared in] 'The Microcosm'," a literary journal sold on behalf of North Country charities, privately printed, Leeds? 1914-25 (earlier numbers is...

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The sea-microcosm

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

[1929]

Prose, verse, and drawings about the sea, published for the benefit of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

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Icelandic spring

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967); Sarginson, Tom; Barbara Árnason (1911-)

[1950]

Edition limited to 600 copies. Letters written to Tom Sarginson (Silverpen).

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Dale courtin' : songs in the dialect of the Yorkshire dales

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

[1933]

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