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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I woke up this morning and checked my social media feeds. I always find it fascinating to scroll through the local area pages to find out what atrocities we Gypsy and Traveller people may have committed. “Gypsies pulled on playing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was born in a trailer (caravan), I spent most of my childhood living on a few different bits of camps. We just moved from one place to half a mile down the road. It was just how we lived […]