The culture of Britain's Romany Gypsies is "at risk of being lost", according to the founder of a community group. Charmaine Abdul-Karim started Pride of Romany in Nantwich, Cheshire, in 2022 as part ...
The South Shore Romany Gypsies were central to the development of Blackpool as a tourist town, but as the town grew they were forced off the land they had occupied for generations. Is enough being ...
Romany Gypsies started to live in caravans, which they call vardoes, in the 1850s. Before this they travelled by horse or foot and camped in tents made from hazel rods covered with tarpaulin.
Billy Marshall (1672-1792) was born in Ayrshire, was said to be or Romany stock and is described as the King of the Gypsies in south-east Scotland for most of the 1700s. His career included time ...