D100 - Miscellaneous printed programmes etc of University College collected by Dr Dora Yates - [ca.1887]-1896
Printed programmes etc found in Dr Yates' room in the Library, comprising: appeal for funds for the Athletic club n.d. (c. 1887-1894); Programme of British Association (Manchester meeting 1887) dredging expedition in Liverpool Bay with the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee 3 Sep 1887; Menu card of...
| Archive level description: | Series |
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| Physical Description: | 6 items |
| Summary: | Printed programmes etc found in Dr Yates' room in the Library, comprising: appeal for funds for the Athletic club n.d. (c. 1887-1894); Programme of British Association (Manchester meeting 1887) dredging expedition in Liverpool Bay with the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee 3 Sep 1887; Menu card of dinner in honour of Mr [W] Rathbone and Mr [Henry] Tate n.d. [c. 1888]; Programme of Liverpool Teachers' Guild concert 12 Jan 1889; Verses upon the conferment by the King of Italy of the title Chevalier upon Dr Londini used at dinner at the College's Art Club 28 Feb 1891; Programme for the Third Arts Dinner 22 Jan 1886 |
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| Date: | [ca.1887]-1896 |
| Reference Number: | D100 |
| Related Material: | Also held at the University of Livepool:SPEC DY - Papers of Dora Yates SPEC GLS - Gypsy Lore Society Archive (Yates was editor of the GLS Journal 1955-1973); SPEC Scott Macfie - Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection (Yates was Curator of this Collection 1945-1974) |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Dr Dora Esther Yates (1879-1974) was Honorary Secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society 1935-1974, and a member of the Society from 1907; Editor of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 1955-1973; Curator of the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection 1945-1974; author of the Collection's printed catalogue (University of Liverpool, 1936). Dora Yates was born in Liverpool and devoted her life to scholarship and enjoyed a distinguished academic career of which her vast philological work in Gypsy studies formed only a part. In 1900 Dora Yates became the first Jewish woman to be awarded an MA ( Literature) by an English University, and she was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Literature by the University of Liverpool in 1963 in recognition of her many fields of scholarship. Before and during the Second World War she was also Secretary of the University Refugees Committee. After her official retirement from the University in 1945, Dora was appointed Curator of the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection, which she had largely been instrumental in obtaining for the University Library in 1935. |