The Welsh Gypsies
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Archive of Welsh gypsies from 1964.
Rare footage of Welsh gypsies in 1964. By that time gipsies were starting to use modern caravans instead of their traditional multi coloured horse drawn wooden ones. Both ways of life are shown.
From:
Next Place: Jim Phelan
First broadcast
:
03 July 1964
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 7-9
Subject : History
Topic : Modern Wales and Britain
Keywords : Rural life, Romanies, Gipsies, history of the Welsh Romanies,
Notes : Who are the gipsies? Where did they come from? Are they different from today? Why and how have their lifestyles changed since 1964? Why does the commentator describe them as vagabonds? Look at the history of the gipsies through Europe
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