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Total number of records: 6039

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3670
Books and printed items2366
Art items2
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3446
Brotherton Collection366
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society287
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections125
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman107
English Literature55
Cookery Collection35
Ripon Cathedral20
Herbert Read Collection20
Leeds Russian Archive18

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SubjectCount
furniture320
meubles159
art106
manners and customs78
education74
architecture, domestic66
architecture65
atlases, british63
travel62
historic buildings56

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England6039
Yorkshire374
Great Britain244
Wales191
Lincolnshire168
Essex166
Lancashire160
Somerset151
Norfolk145
Staffordshire122

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1298
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1113
Wright, John T543
Wright, Peter417
Sykes, Donald Richard341
Barry, Michael V (1935-)308
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)143
Playford, Averil H132
Gibson, Dr Peter H121
Berntsen, Howard N99

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From 15003
From 160036
From 1700200
From 1800759
From 19004742
From 2000299

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Up to 15993
Up to 169936
Up to 1799177
Up to 1899754
Up to 19994741
Up to latest328

Archive Collection

Papers of Diana Allen, Gypsy and Traveller Rights Campaigner.

Allen, Diana (1916-2007)

c.1967-2007

Includes correspondence, newspaper cuttings, research papers, reports, copies of minutes and publications relating to Gypsies and Travellers collected by Diana Allen.

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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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Archive Collection

Centre for Disability Studies Collection

1974-2015

The collection includes the papers of various organisations run by disabled people for disabled people. It contains minutes, agendas and information bulletins. There are flyers and posters about eve...

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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...

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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.

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Robert M.Dawson Collection

Dawson, Robert (1944-)

c.1947-1970

Press cuttings and card indexes relating to Gypsies and Travellers.

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Donald Kenrick Collection (Papers of the National Gypsy Council)

c.1963- c.1971

Papers (mainly relating to the establishment and work of the Gypsy Council) and print items referencing Gypsies, Travellers and Roma as deposited by Donald Kenrick.

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Archive Series

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...

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Archive Sub-series

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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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...

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Cowles (Frederick Ignatius), Letters to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

Cowles, Frederick Ignatius (1900-)

28/07/1939 - 08/08/1939

2 typed and signed.letters from Frederick Cowles introducing himself to Mrs Phillips, (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) as a friend of Dr Endre Spur (Hungary) just returned from his visit to Gypsy/Traveller ca...

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Fitzgerald (Brian Seymour Vesey-), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

Vesey-FitzGerald, Brian Seymour (1900-)

24/06/1956

Letter from author, Brian Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald to DUR (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) with offer of law book used by George Borrow.

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