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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£11.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916493506 | ISBN 10: 1916493505
Why the Moon Travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community. Â Brave vixens, prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides, protectors, friends and ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784704131 | ISBN 10: 178470413x
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*Â 'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.' Â Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmoth ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783603992 | ISBN 10: 1783603992
Identifies the origins of Romaphobia, and points to meaningful ways to promote the inclusion of Roma in society. Â Demonised by the media and persecuted for hundreds of years Roma communities are among the most persecuted groups in Europe. Based o ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241954706 | ISBN 10: 0241954703
In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a str ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780719091261 | ISBN 10: 0719091268
This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore the impact of state and legislative developmen ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780747812364 | ISBN 10: 0747812365
Gypsies have been a part of the British and European social fabric for centuries – and have faced prejudice and oppression for nearly as long, since at least the time of Henry VIII. Theirs is a peripatetic existence, dwelling in tents and in caravans ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689491 | ISBN 10: 1851689494
The shocking, poignant story of rejection, eviction and the fight for a home. They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444708264 | ISBN 10: 1444708260
A life lived on the road and a heart that will always belong there. Imagine being born into a world where communities are constantly on the move, but freedom is not a birthright. Rosie grew up travelling all over England and ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330519991 | ISBN 10: 0330519999
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the Romany in the 1940s and 50s, just as that world was changing forever. Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, Eva Petulengro’s childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in every way. She would tr ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349123615 | ISBN 10: 0349123616
Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community’s long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn ... more
View book details£25.00 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781902806983 | ISBN 10: 1902806980
Professor Ian F. Hancock, Gypsy, scholar, linguist, activist (although not necessarily or always in that order), has spent a good deal of his life kicking against the received opinions and dearth of opportunities that have long oppressed the Romani c ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841587523 | ISBN 10: 1841587524
Sheila Stewart, singer, storyteller and author, is one of the last in the line of Scotland’s travelling people. The way of life of the old travellers – tramping the country roads, camping in the woods, hawking, fortune-telling and temporary work on f ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565540 | ISBN 10: 0863565549
The Gypsies have always been subject to myths about their origins, customs and social organisation, in large part because of widespread ignorance. In this lively and informative book, Jean-Pierre Liegeois redresses this shortcoming. Starting w ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781841580708 | ISBN 10: 1841580708
This is a sequel to the popular Yellow on the Broom. It takes Betsy Whyte's (1919-1988) story to the end of World War II, and includes additional material not previously published. It recounts, in vivid detail, the heady years of adolescence, h ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780099740216 | ISBN 10: 0099740214
"Isabel Fonseca's book is literally a revelation: a hidden world - at once ignored and secretive, persecuted and unknown - is uncovered in these absorbing pages. She writes with grace, insight and passion, and peoples her text with vibrant characters ... more
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