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 ...

They came to Europe from India in the Middle Ages. Their Romany language is flecked with words close to Hindi and is spoken in various dialects from Transylvania to San Francisco. To the outside world ...

Each summer the English upland town of Appleby-in-Westmorland hosts a spontaneous week-long ‘happening’. It’s the event of the year for a culture with an unsettled past—and an uncertain future. A man ...

Stef Penney’s second novel, The Invisible Ones, sets the mystery of a missing girl in the always mysterious world of “the Travellers,” the English Romany gypsies. What made you decide to write about ...

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 ...

Watch a film produced by Romany pupils from Angley School in Cranbrook about Rom life now and then. New youth clubs are just one example of projects aimed at teaching Romany kids about their culture.