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Year: 2026
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Nackens Now and Then: The History Scotland Tried to Hide
Art, archives, war heroes and a family refusing to be forgotten On Friday 26 June, I attended Nackens Now and Then at Killiecrankie Village Hall, near Pitlochry. David McPhee, a member of Perth and Kinross Council staff—and, as far as we are aware, no direct relation to Shamus and Roseanna McPhee—opened the event to a standing-room-only audience.…
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Appleby Through the Eyes of a Travelling Family
For Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month, Proud Gypsy Traveller asked one of our directors to take his family to Appleby Horse Fair and share some feedback about their experience. We are very grateful to his wife for writing this honest and personal account of what Appleby means to their Family, what keeps them returning…
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The Last Acceptable Racism?
What Kemi Badenoch’s comments reveal about Britain’s treatment of Gypsy and Traveller communities Today, I listened to comments from Kemi Badenoch regarding Gypsy and Traveller communities and policing. I should have been shocked. Instead, I found myself feeling something closer to disappointment. Not because the comments were new. Sadly, they were not. They simply repeated…
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The Forgotten Slave Girls
We want to thank Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly, for giving us permission to share this slice of history. We are humbled by the work carried out to bring this and other atrocities in Scotland to light! As tomorrow sees the start of GRTHM I am sharing a personal story of one of the girls from my…
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We Don’t Need Platitudes, We Need Actions
There comes a point where “we understand your concerns” stops sounding compassionate and starts sounding rehearsed. For years, Gypsy and Traveller communities have been accused of “weaponising” bank holiday weekends. The narrative is familiar. If an unauthorised development appears over a long weekend, headlines and social media commentary quickly follow. We are painted as manipulative.…
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This Was Never Just a Scottish Problem, was it?
I’ve been sitting with this for a while now. Like a lot of us, I was brought up hearing bits of things — never the full story. Things half said. Things you don’t ask too many questions about. Things that sit in families but don’t get written down. I’m Romani Gypsy, with Scottish Gypsy ancestry…
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If You Won’t Let Us Stop, Won’t Let Us Travel, and Won’t Let Us Build—What Exactly Is the Plan?
I have spent years working in planning, sitting in fields, on yards, at kitchen tables, and sometimes in silence while people try to explain their lives through tears. And here is the truth, stripped of policy language and legal jargon: Gypsy and Traveller families are running out of places to exist. Not places to thrive.Not…
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She Who Holds the Crown
A storytelling session for International Women’s Day This International Women’s Day, audiences were invited into a powerful and deeply personal storytelling experience: “She Who Holds the Crown.” The session explored the strength, humour, resilience and quiet authority of Romany Gypsy women — the women who have carried culture, memory and survival through centuries of change,…
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Two Versions of the Same Meeting: When Schools and Gypsy & Traveller Parents Leave With Different Stories
Today the school has responded to us directly, explaining that the meeting was intended to discuss upcoming curriculum changes relating to Protected Characteristics within the Relationships Education curriculum and to begin a conversation with parents ahead of implementation planned for September 2026. Yesterday we published a blog after several ethnic Gypsy and Traveller parents contacted Proud Gypsy Traveller…
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When “Choice” Isn’t Really a Choice
“Choose by 2:45pm”: Gypsy and Traveller Parents Given Hours to Decide Over School Lessons” This morning a number of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller parents contacted us after being called into a meeting at their children’s school. What they describe should concern anyone who believes in respectful engagement between schools and families. Parents were reportedly brought…