A vivid picture of action research into the education of Gypsy and Traveller children in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom translated from the proceedings of the international conference organised by the Centre for Gypsy Research and held in Carcassonne in 1989.

The Education of Gypsy and Traveller Children: Action-research and Co-ordination

Education & Teaching

University of Hertfordshire Press

Schools & Teaching

University Of Hertfordshire Press

GYPSIES & FLAMENCO: The Emergence of the Art of Flamenco in Andalusia (Bold Strummer Books About Gypsies)

Arts & Photography

Music

A quarter of a million Gypsies shared the same fate as the Jewish people in the Nazi Holocaust. This is an absorbing introduction to the "hidden Holocaust" for the general reader as well as being suitable for use in the classroom by teachers and their students. It is a substantially revised account of "The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies" (1972) based on newly discovered documentary sources and extensively illustrated with contemporary photographs. The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies was described as "an amazing book" (Observer), "a unique record" (Time Out) and "a detailed and moving account" (TES).

Gypsies Under the Swastika (Interface Collection)

History

Kenrick, Donald

Puxon, Grattan

Europe

The light emitted by celestial objects can have its wavelength "stretched" in different ways before it is observed by astronomers. These stretching phenomena are collectively called "redshift". They influence virtually all aspects of astronomy and even underpin the "Big Bang" theory of the creation of the universe. This book details the types of redshift and explains their myriad of uses. It begins by introducing the nature of light and the problems involved in measuring its properties. After explaining the redshift phenomena and their uses, the book touches on the age and size of the universe; two subjects embroiled in controversy because of our current interpretation of the redshift. Less conventional theories are then expressed. As a by-product of the explanation of redshift, the book offers the reader a basic understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity. Mathematical treatments of the concepts introduced in the text are boxed off and should not detract from the book's readibility, but allow it to be used as a textbook by students of astronomy at all levels. It is also suitable for astronomers and astrophysicists, amateur astronomers, and any science enthusiast.

Redshift

Science & Math

Clark, Stuart

Astronomy & Space Science

This twelve volume series is based on the work of the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Regional and Local History which, with the help of local historians and genealogists, has computerized the records for the 167,298 individuals recorded as living in Hertfordshire in the 1851 Census. This is the first fully mature and reliable English census and this is the first time its results have been computerized and analyzed for an entire English county. It provides a mine of fascinating information about mid-19th-century society of great historical importance and local interest.

Population, Economy and Family Structure in Hertfordshire in 1851: Volume 1: Berkhamsted (Population, Economy & Family Structure in Hertfordshire in 1851)

Goose, Nigel

Americas

Laboratory tests of extrasensory perception have been going on for over 50 years, attracting international interest within the scientific community. Some scientists believe that these studies are well-conducted, and that positive results obtained support the existence of ESP. In contrast, critics have argued that there are serious methodological errors in such experiemnts and that their results should be ignored.

Guidelines for Extrasensory Perception Research (Guidelines for Research in Parapsychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wiseman, Professor Richard

Milton, Julie

Psychology & Counseling

Gypsies in Britain are descendents of people who survived an attempt at genocide in the 16th century. Laws making it a capital crime to be of Romany ethnicity remained on the statute book for two centuries. The British state and people have never apologized for this, never paid reparations - and why should they? Almost every other European state has behaved in the same way. The 1994 Criminal Justice Act is recriminalizing Gypsies.

Gypsy Politics and Traveller identity

Politics & Social Sciences

Acton, Thomas

Social Sciences

Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.

Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity

The first text in a three-volume series in the Interface Collection, based on the latest research into the racial theories which underlay the suffering of the Gypsies in the Holocaust and their fate in the death camps in the occupied countries of Hitler's Europe.

The Gypsies during the Second World War: Volume 1: From Race Science to the Camps (Interface Collection)

Fings, Karola

Heuss, Herbert

Sparing, Frank

Gypsies in Britain are descendents of people who survived an attempt at genocide in the 16th century. Laws making it a capital crime to be of Romany ethnicity remained on the statute book for two centuries. The British state and people have never apologized for this, never paid reparations - and why should they? Almost every other European state has behaved in the same way. The 1994 Criminal Justice Act is recriminalizing Gypsies. Gypsies may be considered only as a "problem" that a few teachers, council workers and policemen have to accommodate. But it should be considered how and why Gypsy identity has survived many centuries of persecution. Relations with the state and with non-Gypsies have been central to the shaping of the lived identity of Gypsy people. Reaction to Gypsies have been built around the image of them as nomads - even in Eastern Europe where the great majority are not nomads. This book examines how the state deals with Gypsies and travellers, and how they deal with the state. It also provides a comparative study of Gypsy politics in Britain and abroad.

Gypsy politics and traveller identity

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