History on the edge – the Tinker Experiments: A response
I’ve spoken many times to Shamus and Roseanna McPhee about the Tinker Experiments and the impact that living in the one remaining housing experiment has had, and continues to have,…
The trafficking of Gypsy Traveller children to the colonies: Intergenerational trauma
The following podcast tells the story of three Gypsy Traveller girls trafficked to Canada in the early 20th Century. A practice that continued up to the 1970s. Focusing on the…
The enforced assimilation and attempted extirpation of Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland: The case for an apology
The enforced assimilation and attempted extirpation of Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland Summary: The case for an apology The following is a summary of and introduction to my…
This land still sings: Gypsy Travellers in the North East of Scotland
AyeRight and Lankelly Chase are working together to shine light on the way Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people and communities are interconnected with each other, the land and all…
This Land: The rooting of Gypsies and Travellers
The nomads invented a war machine in opposition to the State apparatus. History has never comprehended nomadism […] the book has never comprehended the outside. The State as the model…
This Land
AyeRight and Lankelly Chase are working together to shine light on the way Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people and communities are interconnected with each other, the land and all forms…
A Cautionary Tail
White Tail was always first to the table. Checking first for watching eyes, she would descend graceful and fearless remaining only until she had eaten enough to provide the energy…
Remembering Dale Farm
The following gives an overview of the latter stages of the 10 year long struggle to halt the eviction of eighty families resident at Dale Farm, Essex. The eviction went…
Is our community development effective?
I watched a programme about effective altruism last night. The main points discussed were what approaches, and by whom, were most effective. It got me thinking about the what…
Ice Cream for Crow
Watching a documentary on Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) reminded me that my critical thinking developed against a backdrop of psychedelia, a sub-culture associated not only with psychedelic…