Multicultural

Gypsy, Roma, Traveller

Introductions to everyday life, history and culture

BBC Hometruths - A Romany Life
You can listen again to a 2003 Radio 4 programme of John Peel talking with a gypsy family about their life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ radio4/ hometruths/ 0321romany_life.shtml

BBC Kent - Romany Roots
Large site including personal stories, history, links, news, message board and a features section covering languages, caravans, the Gyspy horse and more. Includes photos, video clips and audio clips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ kent/ romany_roots/

BBC Wales South East - In the Frame - Traveller Girls
Two young girls born to a travelling family talk about their lives. Photos of family life on the road, audio and film clips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ wales/ southeast/ sites/ intheframe_travellers/

Come Look at Us
'The website of young Gypsy Travellers in Scotland'. Covers issues such as discrimination. Includes games such as 'Traveller wordsearch', photos of the young web site creators in action and links to many other sites
http://www.comelookatus.org/

Famous Gypsies
Brief details of famous people who 'are/were Roma or who have/had Romani ancestry'
http://www.imninalu.net/ famousGypsies.htm

Friends, Families and Travellers
Useful and informative site giving guides to education, evictions, health, history, law, media, planning, sites and homelessness and historical laws. Has a long list of contacts and links, a noticeboard and a link to the site's young people's section called 'Cyber Pilots'
http://www.gypsy-traveller.org/

Gypsy Roma Traveller Leeds
Wide-ranging site covering news, education, history and culture, including traveller communities, language, music, arts and crafts, fairs, literature, storytelling and language. See the 'Traveller communities' section for articles on life in circuses, on barges and in fairs, on Roma origins, on Irish and Scottish travellers and more. The history section includes a timeline of the history of gypsies in England. The site has photos, audio clips and many links and gives details of, and extracts from, many books, CDs and DVDs
http://www.grtleeds.co.uk/

Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITM)
Introduction to Irish travellers and the issues they face. ITM 'seeks to raise the profile of Irish Travellers in Britain and increase their say in decision making processes and forums' and '...to challenge discrimination and develop national policies that ensure the inclusion of Irish Travellers in all levels of society'
http://www.irishtraveller.org.uk/

Patrin
The Patrin web journal, giving information on Romani culture and history, including customs, arts, a glossary and organisations worldwide.
http://www.geocities.com/ ~patrin/

Romani Project - The Children's University of Manchester
Introduction for children to the Romani Project at Manchester University, giving taster clips from an interactive DVD-ROM for schools on Romani and language culture. Site also has a short video, 'The Roma: fact and fiction'
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/ interactives/ literacy/ wordclasses/ discovermore/ romaniproject.asp

Time Travellers
Culture, education, homes, work covered in articles, film clips, sound clips and photographs. Much of the site produced by young gypsy/travellers from across Scotland
http://www.time-travellers.org.uk

Travellers Tairing
Stories, film clips, animations and photographs about the lives and experiences of the Irish Traveller Community in Tara Park, Liverpool. In Cant, the Irish traveller language, travellers 'tairing' means travellers 'telling stories'
http://www.travellers-tairing.com/

More detail

Archives Hub: Collections on Romanies and Gypsiologists
Guide to archive collections and to museum sites
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ jun06.shtml

European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)
A great deal of information on Roma rights. Includes news, factsheets, country reports and legal commentary; a database of cases from the European Court of Human Rights dealing with Roma issues; an online journal 'Roma rights quarterly'. For links to many Roma web sites, click 'Databases and Links' and then click 'Links to...'.
http://www.errc.org/

Manchester Romani Project
Detailed information on Romani language and linguistics, from a project based at the University of Manchester. Also includes links to Romani language magazine, article downoads, news sites and other useful resources. Includes audio samples of 'Anglo Romani' (in the Linguistics section). Clicking the image at the top of each page leads to a downloads page for an audio CD file (a large file) and for a multilingual DVD file which is so huge that separate files for each individual language from the DVD are also available - but note that they are still big files
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ Research/ Projects/ romani/

National Fairground Archive (NFA)
Articles and many photographs on fairs past and present. See the 'History of Fairs' section for fairground cinema, fairground shows, fairground rides and more. See the 'Picture Gallery' for an online image database of 1000 photographic images. Has links to other sites on fairs and circuses
http://www.shef.ac.uk/ nfa

Rombase
A large amount of well-researched information on the Roma. Covers many social, cultural and historical topics, including language, work, music, family, beliefs, food, celebrations, literature, history and politics and famous individuals
http://romani.uni-graz.at/ rombase/ index.html

Specialized Library with Archive 'Studii Romani'
Includes a 'Photo Gallery' and a 'Virtual Library' section giving the text of detailed articles. The archive is part of the 'Library and Ethnographic' archive of the 'Ethnographic Institute with Museum', at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
http://212.72.210.65/ sr-www/ en-page.html

University of Hertfordshire Press - Romani Studies
Details of books on Romani studies published by University of Hertfordshire Press, covering language, history, literature, education and more
http://perseus.herts.ac.uk/ uhinfo/ university-of-hertfordshire-press/ romani-studies/ introduction-to-romani-studies.cfm

World's Fair
The 'World's Fair' is the weekly newspaper for travelling showmen and the funfairs industry, reporting on fairground news, business information and social events for showpeople. It was founded in 1904. Available on subscription
http://www.worldsfair.co.uk/ wf/

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