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Old Ways, New Days
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Old Ways, New Days: A Family History of Gypsy Life in South London and Kent
by Rosie Smith and Lindsey Marsh
Paperback 104 pages with over 100 black and white photographs
ISBN 978 1 903427 45 3
Old ways, New Days is a book of photographs and reminiscences of Gypsy life in South London, Surrey and Kent by Rosie Smith, who still lives a traditional Gypsy lifestyle, and her second cousin Lindsey Marsh, who has been researching her own Gypsy roots. It is an introduction to the language, working lives, music, poetry and song of Gypsies and a record of the changes that have taken place in their way of life in recent years. With chapters on prize-fighting, cherry picking and hop picking, the book also exposes the hostility that Gypsies have endured at the hands of gavvers and local councils over the years. A remarkable book, a social history and the seldom heard voice of Gypsy life.
Available in June
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 15 May, 2009.
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| Old Ways,NewDays. By Rosie Smith & Lindsey Marsh
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| Karen Taylor Books
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 is a teacher who works for the TEMS Team in Cheshire (Traveller Education and Minorities Support) and publishes resources independantly. The following publications will be of interest to anyone working with or involved with Traveller Children.
Colletta Goeas to School - Karen Taylor
20 page A5 book with full colour photographs.
Colletta tells us about some of the things she has enjoyed in her first year at school. Providing positive images of early years education for Traveller families.
Swapping Tommy - Karen Taylor
20 page A5 book with full colour illutrations.
Set around an old Gypsy Wagon. Tommy can't keep anything for long. When will Tommy's swapping habits come to an end? Sooner than he thinks!
Early reader. Reading Recovery lever 8 Band 3 yellow.
The Tadpole Trailer - Karen Taylor
20 page 175x250mm book with full colour illustrations.
A humorous rhyming fantasy tale. No animals are allowed in the trailer. When will John stop bringing creatures in? Sooner than he thinks!
Band 9/Gold
Handsome Prints,
Durrows,
Quarry Lane,
Kelsall,
Cheshire,
CW6 0PD
Telephone: 01829 751097
E-Mail: Karentaylor43205@aol.com
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| Rokkering, Clecking and Cracking
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An extensive book on the Romani and Nawken Dialects of Britain. This is jot some academic list but the real thing – heard from dozens of people and recorded with permission. And usually within context. Modern Romani phrases for such things as petrol, lawn mower, AIDS etc. There is no more comprehensive book in print.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-32-1
ISBN 978-1-903418-32-1.
A5 paperback/171 pp.
£16.00
Robert Dawson
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| A Romany In The Family
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The how-you-can-tell of Romany genealogy. Lots of people think they have a Romany forebear and this book explains how you can tell. Specialist sections on the blood groups, genetics, family traditions, little pointers, surnames, which parts of the UK certain families lived in, which forenames were used by which families, Scottish families and wayside burials, with how to find them. Extensive bibliography and useful addresses. A5 paperback. 281pp.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-27-7
Price: £16.00
Robert Dawson
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| Favourite Romany Recipes
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 Favourite Romany Recipes.
Contains numerous old recipes and a dozen sepia photos of wagons, horses, people etc.
Lovely book. A6 size, 48pp.
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ISBN: 978-1-902842-56-1
Published by J. Salmon Ltd.
Price: £3.55
Robert Dawson
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| Gypsy Feast
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Carol Wilson
(Hippocrene, New York August 2004):
The Romany people are descendants of the ancient warrior classes of Northern India who trekked westwards around A.D. 1000. They were, and still are, often referred to as "gypsies," but their correct and preferred name is Roma. Their migration took them through Persia and Armenia into Europe and later America. Recipes survived through the centuries, frequently undergoing intervention and adaptation to meet the tastes of a particular time. Very few recipes were ever written down-most were handed down verbally through generations. Today. As modern life encroaches on the traditional Romany ways, the old traditions are disappearing rapidly. Convenience foods, modern cooking tools, and appliances have ousted the old cooking methods and traditional recipes, although some are still made for special occasions. This book evokes a memorable picture of the old ways, recipes, feast days, marriage customs, and funeral feasts as well as a unique way of life that has almost disappeared forever.
What's Cooking?
Amazon.com
Carol Online
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| We Are The Romani People
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Interface Collection Volume 28
ISBN 1-902806-19-0
November 2002, 208pp
This highly readable introduction to Roma life, written by a Gypsy, considers culture, language, politics, society, health, and food to provide an insightful portrait of this fascinating minority. In surveying the Gypsies, their origins and history and their exclusion from society, Ian Hancock offers candid advice on rejecting prejudices and stereotypes and getting to know the Roma as individuals. There is also a section of short biographies of Roma from many different walks of life.
"this easy-to-read, gripping book … gives us the chance to be better informed next time we talk about 'these Gypsies'" Dimitrina Petrova, European Roma Rights Centre, Budapest
"... intellectual tour de force that will grab the interested reader by the throat until the last page is turned" Thomas Acton, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
The Holocaust
University of Hertfordshire Press
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| Settela
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The image of a young girl looking back from a train is one of the iconic images of the Holocaust. She appears for seven seconds on a film of a transport bound for Auschwitz. Aad Wagenaar, a Dutch journalist, decided
to discover the identity of the girl whose image had haunted him all his life.
His task took him two years, leading from the Westerbork transit camp in Holland, to war archives, and to Jews who had survived Auschwitz. It had always been assumed that the girl in the wagon was Jewish. But Wagenaar had been looking in the wrong place. His search led him to the Dutch Sinti (Gypsy) community where he could finally tell the world who the girl was.
The child was Settela, from a Gypsy family, murdered in Auschwitz. She was ten years old. This book is Aad Wagenaar’s account of his search.
Aad Wagenaar is a well-known Dutch press and TV journalist, and historian of WW11. Settela, his sixth book, was made into a Dutch television documentary.
Janna Elliot, who translated Settela, is the author of several books for children.
Ian Hancock writes on the Holocaust (Porrajmos — the Devouring — in Vlax Romani) as it affected the Romani and Sinti people. Dr Hancock teaches Romani studies at the University of Texas. He represents Romanies on the
US Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Holocaust
Five Leaves Publications
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| The Herbal Encyclopedia
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by Rev. Dr. Lisa R. Waltz, ND, DD, CNC,
iUniverse.com; (Oct 2004); Pages: 396
ISBN:0595334253; Our Ref: 0595334253
Format: paperback
Subject: Traditional medicine & remedies
Price: £14.39
A Practical Guide to the Many Uses of Herbs is a valuable resource for those seeking more than the usual aspects of learning about our planet's valuable medicinal herbs. Besides medicinal information, included is also information regarding the spiritual uses, and growing information for those who wish to grow their own natural medicines. Compiled by a nationally certified Naturopathic Doctor, this guide is a valuable addition to any reference library.
Want to learn how to feed your body naturally? Want to learn how to grow your own medicinal herbs? Want to learn ways to incorporate herbs into your worship? Want to learn how to get healthy and stay that way? Then this book is for you!
Sprint Books
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| The Dough Craft Sourcebook
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A step-by-step guide to 50 original salt dough projects.
The Dough Craft Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide to modelling salt dough: It is full of ideas and inspiriation - combine these ideas with your own imagination to transform salt dough into original decorations and gifts.
The book features:
- Clear step-by-step instructions and colour photographs
- 50 original projects created especially for the book
- Practical information on techniques
- A wide range of projects - from simple napkin rings to an elaborate lattice basket.
Country Books
Published Price: £6.99
ISBN: 0753700190
Published By: Bounty Books
Publication Date: 15 November 1997
Format: Paperback
Category: doughcraft
Category: handicrafts
Arts & Crafts
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| Country Crafts
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Creative ideas for decorations, displays and gifts on a country theme.
- Over 50 traditional projects using natural materials
- Create beautiful fresh flower posies and swags, dried herb wreaths, lavender sachets and pillows and natural Christamas decorations.
- All projects photographed step-by-strp
- Over 300 specially commissioned photographs
Book Title: Country Crafts
Author: Tessa Evelegh
ISBN: 1901688038
Our Price: £17.00 GBP ($30.26 USD)
Description: Numerous craft projects to create the country look to enhance the home . 1977 Anness Publishing edition ,96 pages well illustrated in colour in As New condition.
Dustcover: Yes
Binding: Hardback
Arts & Crafts
Mary ward Books
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| Make It Yourself
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This book may be out of print, however it is worth looking out for as there are excellent creative project ideas highlighted.
Enquiries to:
Publisher: Joanna Lorenz
Annes Publishing Limited
Hermes House
88-89 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8HA
Paperback: ISBN 1-84038-258-9
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| Finches
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 with photos by Tom and family, Wendy McGinty and Roseanne Price. Superb water colour paintings by Amaletta. Full colour throughout.
A detailed account of how to look after finches in captivity including legal requirements.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-31-4
(KS1/2 book, RA low KS1, Bedfordshire TES)
Price: £4.00
Robert Dawson
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| The Gypsy Chronicles
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by Alison Mackie (Author)
Its about the power of one's imagination.
I look around and see people who buy their lives, instead of making their
lives...
They buy a prefabricated life. Why? Because they have no imagination to depend upon. They buy lives others create for them because they can't tap into what is deep inside, to create the lives they are born to live. Its too sad really, but instead of complain, I focus instead upon Gypsy characters in my book who make their own path, instead of following the set path of society.
Lavengro The Gypsy Scholar in George Borrow's book says "O ye gifted ones,
follow the path of your true calling however various your talents may be..."
That is the message of The Gypsy Chronicles...
The characters in my book show by their example how to create - As Tzigany de
Torres says, "Whatsoever the mind can conceive, the hands can achieve."
There are pictures in my book...and lots of magical characters. Elvira Vega is
the wise woman who stopped counting birthdays after her 100th year...Carlos
Castillos is an alchemist of the grape - a winemaker who can do no
wrong...Tzigany is a maker of charmed matrimonial beds guaranteed for a lifetime
of loving passion within the marriage - but if you were to think this book is
about sex you would be wrong - there is no sex in this book, only love, or
should I say, quietly, the making of love...For I believe it is better to
imagine, than to show, and am in quiet revolt at the world and the way there is
sex everywhere.
All good things your way, Alison Mackie
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: Ashton Court Press, Inc.; 1st edition (March 5, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615134653
ISBN-13: 978-0615134659
Price: $14.98
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Gypsy Chronicles
Alison Mackie's MySpace
See the video trailer for this book in our forums HERE!
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| FightGame
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Gypsy boy Freedom Smith has the cops on his tail yet again. But this time they want to recruit him. 200 years ago legendary bareknuckle champ Hercules Smith passed a rogue gene to his descendant giving phenomenal strength and fighting skills. Freedom's inherited the Hercules gene but all it brings is trouble, and its about to get worse.
See a film type trailer for a new book by author Kate Wild about gypsy boy Freedom Smith. In our forums HERE. He has a remarkable fighting ability inherited through having the Hercules gene.
by Kate Wild (Author)
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Chicken House Ltd (4 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1905294239
ISBN-13: 978-1905294237
Price: £4.79
Amazon.com
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Chicken House (Jul 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0439871751
ISBN-13: 978-0439871754
Price: £7.70
Amazon.com
Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a born fighter - it's in his Gypsy blood. Freedom's no angel, but he's no killer either. When falsely accused of murder, the law gives him the chance to prove his worth, by infiltrating a sinister fight game that's recruiting runaway boys. But what he discovers is something else. Something big.
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| Memories Of A Gypsy
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"My story began in 1938 in Shanghai, China, as far as my memory can reach."
Born in Shanghai in 1931, Victor Vishnevsky is a Russian Lovara Rom by culture, an Iranian by citizenship, and a resident of Brazil. In Memories of a Gypsy he takes us from his childhood in Shanghai, through his family’s flight from China in 1949, through Burma, India, and Iran, and on to his emigration to Brazil and later world travels. Along the way he presents his views on his and other Gypsy cultures, and offers his opinions on history and world affairs. Addressed directly to the reader, Vishnevsky’s account is like a letter written to a friend.
Memories of a Gypsy was originally written in English. It was published in Portuguese translation in 1999 by Duna Dueto, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 This edition was prepared directly from the original English-language manuscript.
157 pages, photographs $20.00
ISBN 0-9787728-0-6; ISBN-13 978-0-9787728-0-2
Gypsies are members of any of a number of ethnic groups referring to themselves in their own language as, among other terms, Rom, Romnichels, or Ludar.
Typically manuscripts by Gypsies have been polished by non-Gypsy editors before publication. Salo Press presents these works with minimal editing, allowing the reader to meet the author directly, on his or her own terms.
Amazon.com
Salo Press (Recommended)
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| The Way of the Romany by Fred Price
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 Lots of information about British Romany Gypsies plus 200 photos, mainly with the people identified and covering many English and Welsh counties and families. Written by Fred Price with added information from Robert Dawson and Siobhan Spencer.
Published for Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group. Hardback.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-56-7
Price: £30.00
Robert Dawson
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| Gypsies & Travellers In Their Own Words
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This book was produced by the Travellers Education Service (TES). It is a labour of love that was years in the making. In it Gypsies and Travellers from several generations describe, in their own words, their lives from early in this century to the present day.
These are personal histories and viewpoints, but collectively they create a vivid picture of life within the Gypsy and Traveller communities and the radical changes experienced by them over the past century.
The limited edition book, is unique. It tells Travellers' own stories in their own words and photographs.
It can be bought from Leeds TES for £15 plus £5 package and postage.
Please send cheques payable to Leeds City Council to:
Gypsys and Travellers in their own words,
West Park Centre,
Spen Lane,
Leeds LS16 5BE.
Telephone: 0113 274 8050
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| Duncan Williamson
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 Duncan Williamson was the son, grandson, and great-grandson of nomadic tinsmiths, basket makers, pipers, and storytellers. In this book he describes his life as a traveler with verve, candour, and intimacy, recounting a childhood spent on the shores of Loch Fyne, work on the small hill farms in the summer, and walking with barrows and prams and, later, with horse and cart, the length and breadth of Scotland. He recalls camping with hundreds of traveler families from the 1940s to the 1960s, his marriage to his cousin, Jeanie Townsley, and all the various traditional skills and arts that must be perfected for a man to maintain his family adequately.
The Horsieman is also the story of traditions long vanished-of traveler trades, of building tents, of routes traveled, and traditional camping sites, as well as of stories, songs, music, and cures that have been the heritage and tradition of traveling people in Scotland through the ages.
Set in Argyll, Tayside, and all stations in between, Duncan Williamson's story is told with great warmth and humor and in the inimitable style of one Scotland's master storytellers.
About the Author
With over ten books to his name, Duncan Williamson is one of the last, best-known of Scotland's traveler storytellers. His autobiography tells for the first time his own story of his life as a traveler, hawking his wares, collecting stories, and traveling through Scotland. He now lives in Fife.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers; New Ed edition (December 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184158214X
ISBN-13: 978-1841582146
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Available from Amazon.com
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| Gypsy Horses and the Travelers' Way - The Road to Appleby Fair
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 From tales told by the light of stick fires to the drumbeat of hooves through morning rain, this lavishly illustrated volume reveals the mystery and magic embraced by Romani Gypsies. Through stunning images, lyrical prose and moving poetry, renowned equine photographer John Stephen Hockensmith invites readers on a unique journey across cultural boundaries to celebrate the centuries-old rituals of horse trading and spiritual renewal at Appleby Fair.
Hockensmith gained rare entree into this secluded world when he was invited to join a prominent Gypsy family in 2004 and 2005 during the annual horse-drawn pilgrimage over sixty miles through picturesque villages, along busy modern highways and into verdant pastures where time seems to have stopped. When Hockensmith and readers reach Appleby Fair—a boisterous gathering that first took place more than 300 years ago—they have shared a penetrating insight into a way of life that has been much misunderstood but is cherished by the Gypsies with the same fierce pride they maintain for their colorful horses.
Price: £40.00
P&P: £ 7.50
The Appleby Fair Company
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| King of the Gypsies
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For twenty years, legendary hard man Bartley Gorman reigned supreme in the most brutal of all pursuits: illegal bareknuckle prize fighting. He challenged infamous London brawlers Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw - neither accepted - and fought down a mineshaft, in a quarry, at horse fairs, on camp sites, in bars and clubs and in the street. After surviving a brutal attempt on his life by a mob - just yards from where the Queen watched Doncaster Races - he became a living legend, as renowned and feted in his own community as Muhammad Ali, with whom he once sparred. Gorman tells an uncompromising but touching story of a man compelled by the weight of his own violent family history to fight and suffer pain. He reveals the secret lineage of the gypsy champions and unveils never-before-seen photographs of the top fighting men of today.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Milo Books; New Ed edition (1 Aug 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1903854164
ISBN-13: 978-1903854167
Price: £5.99
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BBC Staffodshire
Read more about this book and here recored clips in our forums HERE
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| Boxing
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 with superb colour illustrations, mainly of Traveller boxers from the 19th Century, from his limited edition Boxing Card set, by W.R. Priddy.
Traveller Marky Burnside, a County boxing champ, explains how to box in greater safety, with the right gear, and in the right way.
A5, pp, laminated card cover.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-51-2
KS2/3 book, interest ages 8-13, RA 6.1 - but technical language present.
Price: £4.00
Robert Dawson
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| Between past and future
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Edited by Will Guy
This important study challenges popular misconceptions, analysing how and why Roma have become victims of political and economic restructuring following the overthrow of Communist rule. It explains the background to mass unemployment, increasing segregation, widespread racist attacks and attempts at ethnic cleansing. At the same time it charts Roma political mobilisation and growing resistance to oppression. Included is a full account of the Fifth World Romani Congress, held in Prague in July 2000 at which the delegates voted for the establishment of a Romani nation, a nation without a country.
This volume by leading non-Roma and Roma scholars presents first-hand information, detailed and wide-ranging reviews, analyses and their policy implications. Extensively researched in all countries of the region, it provides stimulating resources for policy makers, practitioners, journalists, politicians, social scientists and the wider public.
ISBN-10 1-902806-07-7
ISBN-13 978-1-902806-07-5
September 2001, 448pp
Paperback £18.99 / $37.95
Tel: 01707 284654
Fax: 01707 284666
Email: uhpress@herts.ac.uk
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| Winter Time
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(translated and annotated by Struan Robertson)
"One of the most unusual and moving war stories you’ll ever read" Daily Express. Chosen as one of the Daily Express Literary Editor’s "Books of the Year 2004"
"This marvelous little book sets the record straight and is an absolute ‘must read’ for Romani and gorja alike. It is a book that the reader will find rather difficult to put down again until he has read it all" Michael Veshengro Smith, International Romani Guild, Travellers’ Times
In this book German Sinto Walter Winter relates his remarkable wartime experience. One of nine children, he was conscripted into the German navy only to be discharged on ‘racial grounds’. In 1943, together with two siblings, he was deported to the ‘Gypsy Camp’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over a year later, shortly before the extermination of the entire camp, he was deported to Ravensbrūck and from there to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Grotesquely, before the war was over he was reconscripted and forced to fight against the Red Army on the Russian front.
Walter Winter recounts his memories of Nazi persecution with extraordinary courage and compassion. He does not flinch from recounting the dreadful crimes he witnessed in the camps and the cruel deaths of so many. The fate of Germany’s Sinti and Roma at the hands of the Nazis is still too little known and Winter Time makes an important contribution to righting that wrong. In this book, extensive notes throw valuable new light on the policy of the Third Reich and successive post-war governments towards the Sinti and Roma.
Walter Winter lives in Hamburg with his third wife. After the war he worked in the family circus and funfair and, although now retired, he is still to be found at the Hamburg fair almost daily.
ISBN-10 1-902806-38-7
ISBN-13 978-1-902806-38-9
October 2004, 192pp
Paperback £9.99 / US$19.95
University of Hertfordshire Press
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| A Wandering of Gypsies
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 much acclaimed wonderful book telling of their lives from birth to their marriage. This is Volume 1 and contains many a laugh and many a sad moment, but a very revealing book about the lives of Gypsies in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Several photo illustrations.
Volume 2 is Wandering Together.
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-10-9
Price: £11.95
Robert Dawson
Tom and Julie continue the story of their life, starting just after their marriage and the difficult days of the 1950s and 1960s right through to modern times and life on a site. Tom and Julie are two of the most respected Travellers in the country and their children have all continued with the tradition their parents gave them. A5 size, 104pp, 5 pages of photos. Matching volume with the first part, Wandering Together.
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ISBN: 978-1-903419-47-5
Price: £11.95
Robert Dawson
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| The Appleby Ghosts
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Everything’s ready for the Trotting (Harness Racing) until someone tries to knobble it. Then Traveller boy Ian and his friendly ghosts have to intervene...
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ISBN: 978-1-903418-55-0
RA 8.6, CA 7-13.By Anne Salter. 14 superb photos (13 colour)
Price: £5.00
Robert Dawson
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| Beneath the Blue Sky
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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. Beneath the Blue Sky does not romanticise Romani life but reveals how people have lived, survived – and thrived – at a time of enormous pressure to integrate. Includes a glossary of Romani words used. Dominic Reeve is the author of four books on Gypsy/Travelling life – this is his first new book in 40 years. Now well past retirement age within the “settled community” he continues to work, selling goods from door to door.
Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1-905512-02-3 Pages: 236
Price: £9.99
Inpress Online Store
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