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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 43 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 19 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 16 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 7 |
| English Literature | 6 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 3 |
| Janina and Zygmunt Bauman | 2 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 2 |
| Liddle Collection | 1 |
| Cookery Collection | 1 |
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GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK, 6TH DUKE OF LEEDS, RELEASE OF FEE FARM RENTS
1818
For properties in Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Kent, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey
T.W. Thompson Collection (Gypsy and Traveller related tales and research material)
Thompson, Thomas William
c.1890 -1964
Manuscript and research notes made by T. W Thompson of tales recounted by Gypsies and Travellers and information gathered during these encounters, (notes on language, customs, familial connections, bi...
Rev George Hall Collection
Hall, Rev George
1908-1918
Correspondence, notebooks, diaries and reports/loose notes documenting Hall's research and information gathering.Mainly concerned with (UK) Gypsy and Traveller biographies and genealogical details.
Correspondence
1908-1918
Letters addressed to Reverend George Hall (at Ruckland Rectory, Nr. Louth, Lincolnshire) from a number of correspondents across the UK, (one in the USA). Most reference Hall's own and other's literary...
Diaries
c.1912 - c.1917
Mainly loose typescript notes (many fragments) as diary accounts of travels (many visits to horse fairs) and meeting with Gypsies and Travellers. Many have annotations/corrections. Includes some hand...
Borrow (George Henry) The Welsh and their literature (8) fragments and proof,
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)
c.1830-1861
Autograph (handwritten) manuscript drafts for sections of Borrow’s anonymous review so entitled, published in (1861) concerning his own English version of E[l]lis Wyn[ne], The sleeping bard, 1860.
Myers, (John)
8/Jul/1909 -1911
15 autograph (handwritten) signed letters from John Myers of Newport, (Wales) addressed to Kamlo Pal[Romany greeting to Rev George Hall]
Eggleston, (William)
c.1910 - c.1914
Handwritten letters from W. Eggleston of Swansea addressed to Rev George Hall. Many written in Romany. Most undated. Includes some typescript and handwritten notes. References include pedigrees of G...
(G1) Research and papers : 2013-2016
2011-2016
Research notes and papers with many relating to lectures given/visits made by Zygmunt Bauman. Mainly includes manuscript and typescript (TS) notes, copies of articles by various (Igor Czernecki; Pat...
University of Wales, Sep, 1999, Cardiff (declined)
Nov 1998 - Sep 1999
Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to take part in a symposium on the "study of spaces in modernity" on 10-12 September 1999. (University of Wales, 10-12 Sep 1999)
Loose photographs of of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma subjects.
c.1926
[Copies] of black and white photographs of Gypsy,Traveller and Roma related subjects.[Photographer/s unknown]. 1A) Image of two men and child outside tent [undated] 1B) Image of women washing cloth...
Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([p.[i]-Fountains Abbey, Y)
Boswell, Henry; Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas
[1786]
Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints h...