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Stories, Evidence & Change
Writing, commentary, community stories, history, research, policy, creative work and reflections from Proud Gypsy Traveller.
Some pieces begin with one person’s experience. Others look at the history, evidence or systems sitting behind it. Together, they form part of a much bigger record of what our communities have lived, challenged, created and changed.
Latest
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Found Again: A Film From Our First Proud Gypsy Traveller Exhibition
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When You Grow Gills: The Fight We Inherit
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Because Roseanna Found the File: Why What Was Taken? Matters Now
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Rainey the Romany, Ringlets of Red and the Cost of Hiding
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The Day My Six-Year-Old Didn’t Want Them to Know She Was Romany
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Ringlets of Red — Six Years On
All writing
Browse the full published archive. Every piece remains available, from the newest writing back to the beginning of Proud Gypsy Traveller’s online archive in 2016.
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Did We Give You the Kilt and Bagpipes, and In Return You Gave Us Intergenerational Trauma?
Did we give you the kilt and the bagpipe, and in return you gave us silence ? This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a reckoning. For generations, Scottish Gypsy/Travellers were persecuted not only through public disdain but through deliberate, state-backed efforts to erase who we are. In March 2025, the Scottish Government finally admitted it: what…
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We demand The Sun stops publishing hatebait articles targeting Gypsies and Travellers
Open Letter to The Sun and Media Outlets Fueling Hate To the Editors of The Sun and Others Who Trade in Outrage, Your recent article—“Travellers bulldoze Green Belt when residents sleep”—wasn’t journalism. It was rage bait, calculated to provoke fear and hate, not inform the public. And it worked. The story was swamped with toxic comments.…
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We are coming back to Doncaster
During the last few months we have been working behind the scenes. We have been asking questions and offering support and guidance. people are tired of councils doing little or nothing to put right historic wrong doings. Short term funding with discriminatory outcomes and goals! After much debate, we are in the process of setting…
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The Scent of Death Hung in the Air
The Scent of Death Hung in the Air I left my family singing and telling ghost stories and I walked into the village to buy bread. My little sister danced happily around the fire as my mother prepared the meal.I heard a slow rumble of thunder and looked to the sky as the military trucks…
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Ringlets Of Red
Ringlets of red, Eyes open wide. Headteacher usher’s child inside.The room goes quite 48 eyes on me Be nice to Violet she’s a Gypsy you see.Confused and lost a bewildered child, dying with shame and pain inside. Was my culture of vital importance? When leading a lamb out to slaughter.Somewhere to sit Let’s find you…
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Gypsy Clean Up Week
I often remember being told that we must understand the past to learn from it. So As i read an article on hmd.org.uk that explains “On 13 June 1938 German police began a week of operations against Roma and Sinti people in Germany. Roma and Sinti prisoners © USHMM By 18 June over 1,000 Roma…
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Open Letter to anyone who will help affect change
I remember my first day back at school all too well, we were living roadside, it was the norm for my family back then. We had gone away for a few months and were back for the winter, the memory was scorched on my brain so much that when I was in my early 20’s…
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Free Community Journalism
Free Community Journalism training for Gypsies and Travellers We’re looking for Gypsies and Travellers in the Yorkshire/North East Lincolnshire region to collect stories from their families and friends on the topic of health. We are running some free training sessions to help give you the skills to do this. People who attend and fully participate…
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Proud Gypsy Traveller Book
During the course of the project we explored the heritage of Gypsies and Travellers 1900-2000. The book includes some much beloved family stories and photos. As well as long forgotten information found in archives. This book brings together images and stories from the course of the project and some of the interesting stories we uncovered.…
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Please let’s stand together
Heads up people, The Government is looking to change the law! They are looking to be able to move encampments immediately. This includes roadside and private sites without planning permission!! Don’t get all annoyed and write on here how unfair everything is and what t wouldn’t happen if you were black or Asian!!! Black and Asian ppl…