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Brotherton Collection4
English Literature3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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english poetry2
letters2
mass media1
literature1
roma1
traditional societies1
romany language1
romanies1
gypsies1
genealogy1

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Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)4
Dorothy Una Clough4
Dorothy Una Phillips4
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)1
Schotz, Benno1
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)1
Macdiarmid, Hugh (1892-1978)1
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)1
Christopher Murray Grieve1

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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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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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