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Gypsy and Traveller Communities within Britain



Welcome to *Your* web site!  Please look around and make yourself at home.  You'll find information about our people and culture, both past and present.  Our Library is constantly
being updated with the folki wisdom of our communities.  Please share any stories, remedies or potions you think others could enjoy.  Artists, musicians and poets are invited to step forward for the benefit of all.  We have so much to share, both within our communities and without.  Here is a good place to start - please join us!

***We now have the 1881 Census of Gypsies & Travellers on this site!! Even better news ... we will also be adding other years from 1841 to 1901, and all will be updated as new information is found! Only registered members are able to view this data, so if you are not registered, please know that you are more than welcome!***


Recent Articles from the Library
The Ways of Matchvaya in Brazil
by Victor Vishnevsky

I said in Brazil because I know the ways of the Brazilian Matchvaya. I live with them in the same city of San Paulo for more then 45 years, but there are Khoraha, who are very similar to Matchvaya, that mostly live in Chile, Santiago....
read more... Memories of a Gypsy

To Believe
by Victor Vishnevsky

To believe, is not easy because to believe or have faith is a very powerful thing! I personally believe that this comes from a divine force.....
read more... Memories of a Gypsy

Shelter
Housing problems? Shelter can help!

Shelter is the housing and homelessness charity.
Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all. If you are having problems with your home, Shelter can help.....


read more... Help & Resources

The Ways of the Kalderasha Tribe
by Victor Vishnevsky

In their tribe whenever a father gives his daughter away to get married it is the utmost pride of the father is to give away his daughter when she is a virgin! This tribe has always made transactions amongst themselves about the price of the bride....
read more... Memories of a Gypsy

Members Review
by Janna:

"BENEATH THE BLUE SKY"
Dominic Reeve, like a favourite, cantankerous uncle, sits by a smoking fire in a muddy field, relating stories from the past, in a narrative filled with repetitions, digressions, contradictions, prejudices and political asides. With irony and charm, he complains about noisy neighbours, unfriendly pub landlords, Irish Travellers, Gaudji academics, Born Again Christians, and New Age Travellers with their "trinketty colourful and casual living conditions.".....
read more... Recommended Publications

Beneath the Blue Sky
by Dominic Reeve

Beneath the Blue Sky can be read as a social document or simply the experience of one Traveller’s life on the road over the last fifty years....
read more... Recommended Publications


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