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The Hub: Newsletter of the Gypsy Council

The Gyspy Council, 8 Hall Road, Aveley, Essex, RM15 4HD, Tel 01708 868986, email: thegypsycouncil@btinternet.com

This publication contains information about cultures, policy and other related issues. Please contact the Gypsy Council for more information.

Travellers’ Times Magazine

http://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/index.php

This is the national magazine for Gypsies and Travellers, containing information on cultures, and current issues.

Friends, Families and Travellers

http://www.gypsy-traveller.org/

This is a national voluntary organization, which serves the whole spectrum of the Traveller communities - both traditional and new, settled or on the road. They want to see a more equitable society where everyone has the right to travel and to stop without fear of persecution.

Moving Voices - Save the Children Scotland

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/
resources/details.jsp?id=1561&group=resources&section
=publication&subsection=details

A video of young Gypsies/Travellers’ views on their way of life.

National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield

http://www.shef.ac.uk/nfa/

A collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the cultures of travelling showpeople, their organisation as communities, their social history and everyday life; and the artifacts and machinery of fairgrounds.

Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History

http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/

A learning resource and information centre about Romani cultures, social issues, and current events.

Romany and Traveller Family History Society

http://www.rtfhs.org.uk/

A non-political non-profit making self help group. Member of the Federation of Family History Societies.

Gypsy Lore Society

http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/

An international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888. Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States.

BBC Devon: From Where I Stand Now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/community_life/
features/romany.shtml

BBC feature on Traveller life in Devon.

Home Truths: A Romany Life

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths/
0321romany_life.shtml

BBC radio programme about Romany life.

BBC Kent Romany Voices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/voices/index.shtml

Personal Stories and history of Romany life in Kent

International Romani Writers' Association

http://www.romaniwriters.com/

Link to a site which promotes Multilingual Romani literature.

Open Directory Project: Society/Ethnicity/Romani

http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Romani/

Links to other sites.

Roma Community Centre

http://www.rcctoronto.org/

Romani Community Centre in Toronto, Canada.

American Gypsy - documentary film

http://www.americangypsy.com/

Link to website about the documentary: American Gypsy (a stranger in everybody’s land).

Enabler Publications

http://members.aol.com/adearling/enabler/

Publisher of New Traveller material.

Alexander Kennedy: Romany Gypsy Consultant

http://www.romanygypsyconsultant.co.uk/

A perspective on Romany/Gypsy cultural history