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Tag: oral history
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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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Doncaster’s Hidden Gypsy and Traveller History Comes to the Museum
A project to showcase Twentieth Century Gypsy and Traveller Cultural Heritage in Doncaster is set to present the oral histories, images and artefacts collected from local Gypsy and Traveller communities in an exhibition at Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery. Run by Doncaster CVS and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the “Hidden History”…
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The Legacy of Love Letters: A Journey Through Time at Louie’s
As we sit in the Home of Louie, We are told stories of when the Market Place was a night club and when Gypsies were no longer allowed to pull onto the Leger Fair. The Leger was one of the very few fairs in the country where Showmen (Fair Ground Travellers) and the ethnic Travellers…
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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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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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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…
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Documenting Gypsy and Traveller Heritage: Get Involved!
Negative stereo types based on myths and say so have continued to raise and influence. This influences not only the way other communities see Gypsies and Travellers, but sadly how they are beginning to see themselves. We want to create a lasting archive of REAL Gypsy and Traveller history, we want the Gypsy and Traveller communities…