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Gypsies - An English History (Paperback)
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Gypsies - An English History (Paperback)
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Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and-more recently-Travellers. Who are
these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England
in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the
Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and
stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be
regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have
frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently
romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social
historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from
the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of
English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study
of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on
original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace
the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of
villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and
social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of
the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's
treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes,
through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to
the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller
encampments of more recent years.
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