The BFI Player the on-demand service available to universities and colleges across the UK and the leading platform for world and independent cinema. There are over 700 British, world and classic cinema titles, as well as a searchable collection of 12,000 archive shorts and features from the BFI national and regional archives covering all aspects of British life spanning the past 120 years.
We've put together a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History M
onth Reading List.
The reading list highlights books and other material available from Lancaster University Library that relate to Traveller History and attempts to highlight material from relevant academic disciplines, such as History, Sociology, Politics, Art and English Literature.
Please add your comments about the readings to the reading list. If you would like to make recommendations for purchase to diversify our collection, please complete our Request a Resource form or email us with your ideas.
Books and pamphlets approaching the topic from different angles can be found on all floors.
Most of the time it is easiest to search with keywords. Subject headings are used to bring material on a similar topic together. Some subject headings or keywords you might use are 'Gypsy', 'Gypsies', 'Roma', 'Romany', and 'Traveller'.
You can use the 'Browse' feature in OneSearch to look up Subjects.
Some key classmarks are: KCNQ (Gypsies and Travellers); MHU (Holocaust); U69 (Planning and Housing), and VR4 (Photopgraphy).
Library collections at Lancaster University are organised using the BLISS classification system and subject headings. There are many useful classmarks and subject headings that will help you find material relevant to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History which are listed above.
However, academics and librarians are aware that the act of organising knowledge according to classification schemes devised a long time ago can compound problems that stem from outmoded assumptions.
We recognise this is problematic and can cause offense when inappropriate and outdated language is used. We recognise that there is much work to be done to maintain the ability to discover material related to Traveller culture and history without perpetuating structural racism.
At Lancaster University Library we are lucky to have passionate and knowledgable staff working hard to remove these kinds of embedded prejudices. We are connected to networks of academics and students who support this work by continually offering suggestions and recommendations that we can adopt, and we are committed to continual improvement. With as many people involved as possible we can continue to strive to be at the forefront of radical change.
Crilly, J. (2019) Decolonising the library: a theoretical exploration. Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal, 4(1) 6-15
Our Gale Primary Sources resource is one recent addition to the Library collection. It is:
A search portal allowing searching across all Gale databases: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, British Library Newspapers (1732-1950), 19th Century UK Periodicals, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive (1843-2013), The Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010), and The Times Digital Archive (1785-2008).
Above, for example, is an article taken from The Independent newspaper, June 10th, 2000.
