The author certainly has the credentials to write this book: she is an English Romany–gypsy who was born in a tent and spent her infancy in a horse-drawn wagon. The book conjures the aura of an ...

For centuries, they have been figures of fear and fascination, in their colorful clothes and seemingly carefree lives. And while gypsies, as they are called, have left their mark on society with their ...

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain. By Damian Le Bas. Chatto & Windus; 320 pages; £14.99 DAMIAN LE BAS is caught between two worlds. He grew up in a family of Romany gypsies. His ...

Hazel Marsh is on the executive committee of the Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers (ACERT) While out shopping with his baby daughter last month, Watson Harrop Jr. – a ...

In the last few months the number of unauthorised Gypsy and traveller camps in Devon has soared - and at the same time there have been increasingly angry and abusive comments on social media. There ...