This website is dedicated to the Gypsy Traveller children taken from their families in Scotland and trafficked to the colonies from the late 1800s to the 1970s. The articles section is a record of past, and continuing, research, field work and campaigning of Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly who, with others, has been campaigning for an apology and reparation for the Tinker Experiments programme of assimilation, of which child trafficking was a key part. On 25th June 2025 John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland, issued a formal and public apology. Plans and processes for reparation are yet to begin.
The Eugenics of the Tinker Experiments: Part four – research or espionage?
Shortly after the publication of David Scott’s article, Damning evidence of state collusion with Nazi Germany to racially profile Caithness Travellers as part of ‘Tinker Experiment’ , I was contacted…
The long walk for justice
An official apology to Scotland’s Gypsy Traveller community – for historic discrimination – would begin a “healing process” and “bring closure”. Dr Lynne Tammi Connelly reaches the end of…
The Eugenics of the Tinker Experiments: Part three
The Eugenics of the Tinker Experiments: Part three Introduction In part one of this series of articles I addressed Wolfgang Abel’s work and rapid rise through the ranks of both…