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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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Support Our Exhibition: The Story of Suitcases and Memories
Have you ever stepped inside a time machine? Been transported to another era? We do every time we interview for this project, it’s an amazing experience we are truly greatful for. We hear about the struggles of living in wagons, the internal fight families had of letting go of the horse drawn wagons (Vardos) for…
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Capturing Gypsy Heritage Through Family Stories
I want to let you know how privileged we feel. We walk into a room with a relative stranger and over the course of our time there, we capture the smiles and Laughter and also the hurts and the pride of a life time. Thursday I was invited into the home of Sarann and her…
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A Traveller Soldier’s Story: Family, Service and Survival
My Name is Jim Foster, I class myself as a Traveller and a Yorkshire one, born and bred. When we were young ,we didn’t use the term Gypsy, it just wasn’t who we are. but i guess today our family would be classed as English Gypsies. Summer months as a very young lad spent in…
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Gold Gilding a Rare Jowet Wagon: A Family Tradition
We have been privileged enough to be allowed to document the full painting process of a brand new rare “Jowet” Living Wagon or Vardo. Once the wagon is completed we will be showing images of the full process. This is something we are really excited about as Gypsy people begin to reclaim their heritage they…
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Exploring Doncaster Museum’s Community Space
Well, I am back blogging again, had a nice day today we, Thats Me and Violet had a nice stroll over to the Doncaster Museum, We wanted to see and get a feel for the exhibition Space. We have an Exhibit in there between 13th August and 24th September community space looks really good, just…
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Gypsies (and Travellers) We Have a Problem!
OK, so now i have your attention. let me tell you about our issue. its quite simple really. Our Project is funded to look at Doncaster G&T Heritage 1900-2000. the Problem? The Community members we have interviewed in Doncaster, they have stories about else where. The stories about Doncaster?Some come from as far away as…
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My Journey as a Cultural Heritage Assistant By P. Nicholson
Hi welcome to my first blog have never written a blog of any kind and I have certainly never published one, so here we go. I am the Cultural Heritage Project Assistant, Anything technical I tend to leave to my co worker Violet but this time I have been asked specifically to write something…
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Exploring the Doncaster Archive: A Hidden Gem
We set up an appointment to go look through the Doncaster Archive. We were a little surprised to find and old school with some signage. The experience was one i would recommend, although strange, it was fun. I expected a computer and some “whizzy” process to find Gypsies and Travellers in Doncaster history. That is…
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From Shack to Sanctuary: Askern’s Church Transformation By W.Varey
Gypsy & Travellers hold faith in God dear to them, and some of us value our relationship with God above anything else in our lives. I want to tell you about the big building in Askern, Doncaster. Why we love it, why we value it and how it came to be. Back when we were…
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Join Us: Documenting Doncaster’s Gypsy and Traveller Legacy
I understand peoples trepidation at the idea of this project. I get it, no really I do. We have been laughed at, ridiculed, exposed and basically shown up by the media. Yes we tried to get involved, We tried to have our say, but it got messed up and edited so our words were misrepresented.…
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Exploring Photography Skills: A Beginner’s Course for Youth
The short photography course was designed to establish an interest in the photography as an art and a way to record history. The course is aimed at young people who have little or no knowledge of the skill. Young people from the Traveller communities attended this 2 day course and developed their artistic skill along…
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Tales from the Past: Preserving Memories for Future Generations
A Hand that could tell a thousand tales Sat in my aunties little front room, I watch the smoke rise in wispy tendrils and pass her laughing lips. She talks in a croaky low voice, the voice of 100,000 cigarettes and a million lifetimes. She regales us with tales of long ago, of stories almost…