Gypsies
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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Gypsy notebook: transcript of the 'Norwood manuscript'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7010
Scope and Contents
This volume comprises rotographs and transcripts of the ‘Norwood Manuscript’ [by Reverend Thomas Wilkinson Norwood] published in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society [New Series, Vol. III, pp. 204-224] relating to the compilation of a Gypsy vocabulary. The original Norwood manuscripts form part of the Gypsy Lore Society archive, now held at the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives, having been presented in 1939 by Lady Arthur Grosvenor. This volume did not form part of...
Dates:
mid to late 19th century
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Ireland, Undated, [1910-1969]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add 8904.4: 1413-1425
Scope and Contents
Envelope labelled 'Irish Gypsies (Ireland?) | Ruth's photos Ireland in 19[..]'.
Dates:
Undated, [1910-1969]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Nora Barlow
Fonds
John Roberts: Copies of his letters to Francis Hindes Groome, scholar of Gypsy life
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8418
Scope and Contents
A typescript copy, made by R.A.S. Macfie of letters written to F.H. Groome with manuscript annotations. There are 201 numbered pages, of which the last 17 are blank. The letters are from John Roberts, with the exception of the final letter, written by Groome's mother-in-law. The script includes early examples of Welsh Romani [Romany], for which there are 'hasty, unstudied translations' made by Macfie in September 1926.
Dates:
1876-1880 (circa. Date of transcript: 1907)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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WAL L/R Trip 1959, 1959 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/49
Scope and Contents
1959 sees Lord Taylour residing in villages, towns and cities in Germany, Italy, Greece, Kosovo (then Serbia), Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia), Austria and France. Places visited include Pistoia, Rome, Florence, Prizren, Sarajevo and Salzburg. Not only are there images of ancient Roman and Greek monumental remains, but also images of churches and cathedrals, many picnics, the British School at Rome, fountains, beaches, the Land Rover crew camping, preparing lunch and going for a...
Dates:
1959 - 1967