Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who
are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in
England in early Tudor times? Are tales 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? In fact, can they
even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all, or are
they little more than a useful concept? Gypsies have frequently
been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the
settled population over the centuries, but 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, from their first appearance in
early Tudor times to the present, 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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