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Archives8
Textiles8
Books and printed items1

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International Textile Collection8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections8
Brotherton Collection8
Cookery Collection1

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wine and winemaking1
mineral waters1
water1

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Greece17
Thessaly2
Athens2
Thebes2
Thessalonica1
United Kingdom1
Turkey1
Metsova1
Crete1
Laconia1

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Mcgrigor Phillips, Noel8
Pesel, Louisa F1
Barry, Sir Edward (1696-1776)1

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BC MS rom 1/4/1/9
Archive Item

Photograph of "Gypsy woman at Metsova."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1940

Photograph of woman with caption, "Gypsy woman at Metsova. Northern Greece." Written underneath, "N.Mcg.P" [Likely taken by Noel Mc Grigor Phillips]

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/12
Archive Item

Photograph of "Armenian Gypsy Coppersmith."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1940

Photograph of man with caption, "Armenian [originally read, "Greek," but this is crossed out] Gypsy Coppersmith. Near Larissa, Thessaly." Initialled, "N.Mc.P" [Noel McGriogor Phillips].

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/13
Archive Item

Photograph of "Ursari and performing bear."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1940

Photograph of man and performing bear. Caption reads: "Ursari and performing bear. Northern Greece."

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/38
Archive Item

Photograph, "Gypsies at Thebes" 1938

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

1938

Photograph labelled, "Gypsies at Thebes Spring 1938. N. Mcg. P"

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/39
Archive Item

Photograph of "Gypsies in the Upper Eurotas Valley Lacedaemon (or Laconia)"

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1938

Photograph of 2 men and 2 boys outside a tent. Labelled, "Gypsies in the Upper Eurotas Valley Lacedaemon (or Laconia). Old British Army tent pitched in an Olive Orchard. N.P."

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/40
Archive Item

Photograph "Armenian Gypsy Woman. Thessaly."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1938

Photograph labelled, "Armenian Gypsy Woman. Thessaly. N.Mcg. P."

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/41
Archive Item

Photograph "Gypsies on the outskirts of Thebes."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1938

Photograph of two women and a man (one carrying sticks).

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BC MS Rom 1/4/1/42
Archive Item

Photograph "Armenian Gypsy in N.Greece."

McGrigor Phillips, Noel

c.1938

Photograph of a woman labelled, "An Armenian [originally read Greek but crossed out] Gypsy in N. Greece. N.Mcg. P."

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embroidered border
Textile

embroidered border

late 19th-mid 20th Century

This narrow length of fabric has been embroidered with a geometric pattern. The label attached reads "2nd border worked also in Lady Egerton's embroidery school after or during Turco-Greco war.". Th...

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Embroidered border
Textile

Embroidered border

late 19th-mid 20th Century

This item is a narrow length of fabric embroidered with geometric patterns, probably originally intended to form some kind of border. An original hand written label accompanies the item, which may or...

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embroidered fragment
Textile

embroidered fragment

18th century

This item is a fragment of a border probably from a bed valance or pillow case. The embroidered pattern is composed of oblique detached leaves executed using alternating colours of red and green. Th...

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scrapbook
Textile

scrapbook

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

c.1903-1947

A scrapbook compiled by Louisa Pesel, possibly after her return from Athens in the first decade of the twentieth century, continuing up to her death in 1947. The album contains attached and loose item...

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