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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Brotherton Collection5

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protest movements1
social justice1
nomads1
homeless1
civil and political rights1
gypsies1
legal decisions1

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Somerset6
England6
Yeovil2
Bristol1
Winsford1
Gloucestershire1
Glastonbury1
Dunkery Beacon1
Dunkery Hill1

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Vowles, Alfred Charles2
Alfred C Phillips2
Woods Family1
Smith, Jenny1

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Up to 19995
Up to latest1

Archive Collection

Papers of Jenny Smith, (Gypsy and Traveller Rights Campaigner)

Smith, Jenny

c.1985 - c.2017

Papers created and reference material collected in the course of Jenny Smith's work campaigning on behalf of Gypsies and Travellers in Bristol area and nationally (UK). Concerns various UK laws, (...

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Phillips (Alfred Charles). “Fern Picking Gypsies." “Fern-picking Gypsies”

Vowles, Alfred Charles

31/Mar/1955

Typescript (6 page) account of “Fern-picking Gypsies” -an account of events in mid 1940s of some Gypsy/Travellers picking ferns from National Trust land at Dunkery, Exmoor for sale to fishmongers ...

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Yates (Dora Esther), Letter to Mr A.C. Phillips.

29/01/1951

1) Cardboard notice/sign, stencilled: “no gipsies served here”. 2) On headed notepaper of the Gypsy Lore Society letter to AC Phillips regarding his account of the notice and where it was found/...

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Phillips (Alfred Cowles) "Exmoor Gypsy Note"

Vowles, Alfred Charles

9/Jul/1949

Handwritten account of a place known as 'Gypsy Corner,' Winsford, (Somerset) as told to the author by a member of the Williams Family. Written in Kinnarstadir, Iceland, 9 July 1949, holograph manusc...

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"Romany Tradition in Somerset."

26/Nov/1960

Photograph of people gathered at a Gypsy/Traveller wagon on fire. On the reverse is the following: Typed transcript: " Romany Tradition in Somerset. The ceremonial burning, in true Romany traditio...

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