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Travellers’ Times produces multi-award winning media,focussing on things that matter to Gypsy, Roma & Traveller people funded by The National Lottery

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#Warwickshire Libraries is proud to be hosting ‘Kushti Kherd’, a special Open Mic Night to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month! Find out more below 📆 Fri 6th June ⏰ 7.30-9pm 📍 Rugby Library, Little Elborow Street, CV21 3BZ ✅ 18+ only #GRTHM travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/05/r…

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Chantelle, who featured in the recent BBC documentary Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, talks to Stacey Hodgkins from the Travellers Times about what it was like to appear on the show 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/i-thi…

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.Drive2Survive has made a sculpture of a Gypsy cob Stallion to go next to Fair Hill in #Appleby. Please take two minutes to register your support for this permanent reminder of our contribution to British rural life, writes Jake Bowers 👇 drive2survive.org.uk/post/a-stallio…

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Throughout June & to celebrate #GRTHM we're sharing some of our most popular historical stories from over the years. Take a look at this story from 2021, where we looked at Scottish outlaw James Macpherson who was made famous by a Robert Burns poem 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2021/09/m…

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Alan Langford is a freelance artist and illustrator who specialises in equestrian subject matter and is a full member of the Society of Equestrian Artists. Take a look at Alan's sketches and photos from his day at #WickhamFair here 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/05/w…

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The Welsh Government has promised to do better after a scathing report by another government committee set up to scrutinise its #Gypsy and #Traveller policies accused it of not going far enough, fast enough. Read the full story 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/05/w…

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Romany & Traveller Heritage Day 2025! 📣 Music, talks, activities and family fun celebrating Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History month #GRTHM 📆 June 14 ⏰ 11:00 am- 4:00 pm 💰 Free 📍 The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading RG1 5EX merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany-t…

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For centuries, #Romany families have lived #nomadically, moving from place to place, maintaining a way of life rooted in freedom, movement & tradition. But today, that way of life is under siege. Take a look at this feature article from Claire Rice 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/were-…

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Throughout June & to celebrate #GRTHM we're sharing some of our most popular historical stories. Take a look at this story from last year, where we looked at the Romany Gypsy families who formed the South Shore community. Read & see more photos here 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/south…

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Romany author Freedom Matthews is about to publish her first novel ‘Scarlett Redemption’ – a work of fantasy fiction. Read her interview by Dee Cooper for the Travellers Times below 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/grand…

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How one police officer's assumptions exposed something deeper in British Policing by Claire Rice What began as an intimidating and dangerous confrontation quickly spiralled into something much bigger 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/just-…

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Ice cream is a short story encapsulating the life of a Romany girl exploring her surroundings whilst mischievously escaping from her home in the search of Ice cream. Watch on the Travellers Times Youtube channel here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=t0Z-mi…

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Ice cream is a short story encapsulating the life of a #Romany girl exploring her surroundings whilst mischievously escaping from her home in the search of Ice cream. Watch on the Travellers Times Youtube channel here 👇 youtu.be/t0Z-miqQrtM

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Throughout June & to celebrate #GRTHM, we're sharing some of our most popular historical stories from over the years. Take a look at this interview with film and TV director John Connors on Ireland’s Travellers and enduring centuries of state violence 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/feroc…

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As we round off #GRTHM, take a look at this feature article from Lawrence Ward exploring the pride, struggle, and resilience of Irish Traveller communities across generations 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/carry…

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The Travellers Times can reveal that the wagon sold to Tyson Fury by Connor John Hamer is the same one that lead the Traveller rights Rally in Manchester late last year. Read more here 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/06/m…

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Throughout June and to celebrate #GRTHM, we're sharing some of our most popular historical stories from over the years. Take a look at this feature from Mark Baillie, who writes about a historic photo of the aftermath of a fair in Kelso, taken in 1886 travellerstimes.org.uk/features/morni…

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Did you catch our article in May by Claire Rice, looking at what life on the road means for nomadic Romany families in today's world? Take a look below 👇 All photographs featured are of Traveller families at stopping places on the way to #ApplebyFair travellerstimes.org.uk/features/were-…

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"There's a certain magic on the Downs, a feeling not always visible but always felt in the heart." Dee Cooper looks back to Show Out Sunday at the Epsom Derby – and looks forward to what it has become now. travellerstimes.org.uk/features/show-…