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Total number of records: 97

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items73
Archives23
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection66
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections42
English Literature25
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Poetry2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

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SubjectCount
english poetry4
romanies3
country life3
english literature2
letters2
english drama2
traditional societies1
religion1
sea stories1
roma1

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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 Clough97
Dorothy Una Phillips97
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)97
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips97
Lawson, Fred16
Hazel, Watson & Viney, Ltd., Printers, London6
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una6
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, 1887-19674
Crowe, Marygold Cecilia4
Austen, John4

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From 15002
From 18002
From 190093

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Up to 199996
Up to latest1

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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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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Archive File

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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Archive File

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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Archive Print Item

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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