Photos from the family album of John Mathew Miller

In our last two posts celebrating Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month you’ll have seen that a pool on the River Kerry, Poll nan Ceàirdidhean, was named after the Gypsy/Travellers who would camp nearby. Here Willie MacRae, who’s family have farmed Kerrysdale since 1936, tells us about the families and camps he remembers from his childhood in the 1950s and 60s…

Objects from Auchindrains Gypsy Traveller Collection

In this, our second post for Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month, we’re tracing several Gypsy/Traveller families through the census records, from 1851 until 1911…

Due to the coronavirus crisis, a joint event for Gypsy, Traveller Roma History Month planned by RAJPOT, our arts and history engagement project and Mangin’ Manushis, a newly formed group run by Gypsy/Traveller women aiming to focus on social and welfare issues at grassroots level [both Perthshire based], has been sadly cancelled. The following document presents a flavour of this work.

Nawken is a term used by Scottish Gypsy/Travellers to refer to themselves.

In acknowledgement and celebration of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month this photographic exhibition focuses on the berry picking season in Perthshire.