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  • Shifting identities: Why Scotland’s Showpeople need to appear on the 2021 census.

    Shifting identities: Why Scotland’s Showpeople need to appear on the 2021 census.

    In our last post we updated you on our efforts to ensure Scottish Showpeople were included in Scotland’s 2021 census. Writing in her blog, Fair Scotland member and social policy expert Dr. Andrea Salvona reflects on the difficulties of categorising showmen and women, and why we need to avoid simply being ‘other’. Categorising Identity: ‘Occupational…

    dialectograms

    September 14, 2020
    Education, Histories, Identity
  • Channel 4 Gets Fact-Checked: Those in the know respond to Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime

    Channel 4 Gets Fact-Checked: Those in the know respond to Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime

    Channel 4’s Dispatches: The Truth About Traveller Crime’ (broadcast 16th April, 2020) reminds us of the distortive power of popular media, particularly when representing mobile communities. Not only did the programme fail to adhere to core journalistic standards, it was directed by someone who had previously made public her prejudices against Gypsies/Roma/Travellers and by all accounts deliberately misled those…

    dialectograms

    July 9, 2020
    Identity, In the News, Social Issues
    Channel 4, GRT, Media, Research, Travellers
  • Scotland’s Census 2021 – Finding a place for Showpeople?

    Scotland’s Census 2021 – Finding a place for Showpeople?

    With rehearsals for Scotland’s carefully tailored 2021 Census now complete, Fair Glasgow a our colleagues in the Scottish Section of the Showman’s Guild will be looking at the final composition of its data collection form with great interest. The Census is a critical tool for gathering reliable information on the Scottish population. It is used…

    dialectograms

    July 3, 2020
    Identity, Showman’s Guild, Social Issues
    Census, Identity, Mobile Communities, Scotland, Showmen, showpeople
  • The Travelling Times: The History Of Showpeople and Transport

    The Travelling Times: The History Of Showpeople and Transport

    Initially by foot, we eventually adopted horses and carriages to travel from place to place, connecting and engaging with those they met along the way. As hooves and sweat made way for steam and oil, Showpeople took to this new technology gladly.

    Evan Kayes

    January 7, 2019
    Histories, Mobility, Transport, Uncategorized
  • Fighting for the Right to Learn

    “Gypsy, Gypsy, Gypsy!” is a playground taunt suffered by children from every GRT (Gypsy, Roma and Traveller group) regardless of how they self-identify. This is equally true for generations of Showman- Traveller children who have tolerated name-calling and physical threats, whilst manoeuvring themselves within an education system ill-equipped or unwilling to incorporate their cultural needs.…

    Candace Gladys Thomas

    September 9, 2018
    Education, Identity, Social Issues
  • In the News: Recent coverage of Showpeople’s Yards in Glasgow

    The proposed relocation of families from the two Govan show yards at Water Row has attracted considerable press attention this year. For easy reference, we have brought together all the major press coverage of the situation in Govan and wider issues faced by Showman’s Yards in Glasgow, listed in order of publication. The views expressed…

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    August 2, 2018
    In the News, Media Coverage, Showman’s Sites, Social Issues
  • ‘A Fair Life’ – now open at Riverside!

    Heather

    March 3, 2017
    Glasgow Museums
    carousel horses, display, exhibit, fairground, gonk, gonk dolls, lights, museum, ride, riverside, Riverside Museum, showpeople, speedway, the shows, traction engine, waltzer car
  • Riverside Museum Christmas Fair 2016

    Riverside Museum Christmas Fair 2016

    Heather

    February 3, 2017
    Christmas Fairs at Riverside Museum
    2016, christmas, fair, fairground, Glasgow, riverside, Riverside Museum, scottish, showpeople
  • Riverside Museum Christmas Fair 2015

    Riverside Museum Christmas Fair 2015

    Heather

    October 6, 2016
    Glasgow Museums
    education, fair, Free, Glasgow, heritage, history, museum, past, rides, riverside, steam, visit
  • Showpeople and the two world wars

    Showpeople and the two world wars

    SHOWPEOPLE AND THE TWO WORLD WARS A hundred years ago Britain was in the third year of the First World War (1914-1918). This conflict altered the lives of everyone who lived through that time – including Glasgow’s community of showpeople. The war touched the lives of nearly every citizen of Glasgow and left an enduring mark…

    Heather

    October 6, 2016
    Historical stuff, Uncategorized
    history, horses, showpeople, war, WW1, WW2
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  • Shifting identities: Why Scotland’s Showpeople need to appear on the 2021 census.September 14, 2020
  • Channel 4 Gets Fact-Checked: Those in the know respond to Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller CrimeJuly 9, 2020
  • Scotland’s Census 2021 – Finding a place for Showpeople?July 3, 2020

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