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The Gipsies Advocate

By James Crabb. Reprint of the Third Edition, published 1832. The Reverend James Crabb of Southampton tried to encourage others to join him in his attempts to improve the lives of Gypsies in Britain. If you would like to know what life was like for your Traveller ancestors in the early 1800s, then this is the book to read, particularly if you harbour romantic notions of the carefree Romany of bygo...

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The Gypsies

By John Hoyland. Originally published in 1816, this book is the first full attempt by a British author to examine and report on the history and lifestyle of the Gypsies of Britain. His method was to broadcast a questionnaire and invite interested parties to answer its questions through observation of the Gypsy families in their locality and by gathering in information at first hand from them. 102 ...

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The Gypsy Countess By Anne-Marie Ford

This is an unusual biography: that of a young woman who, despite the strictures of the British class system, rose from a childhood in a farm cottage and a career with Astley’s Circus to earn a place in the British aristocracy. The Gypsy Countess recounts the life of Catherine Cox, daughter of a Romany Gypsy woman and an agricultural labourer, who in 1855 married George Harry Grey, Earl o...

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Travellers Remember Hopping Time

Edited by Janet Keet-Black and the late Mary Horner A5 paperback book, 60 pages, black-and-white family photographs This RTFHS publication has been out-of-print for 10 years. We are pleased to make it available again so that today's family historians can get a real sense of what their ancestors experienced in the hop-gardens of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Herefordshire in times past. The ...

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Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History

Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History - By Jeremy Harte Published by Reaktion Books (London, 2023). Hardback with dust jacket, A4 format, 317 pages, 40 photographs and illustrations This well-researched and very readable book guides the reader through the six centuries that Romany Gypsies have made Britain their home: from their arrival in these islands in the early 16th century to the mo...

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