A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Becky Taylor

Author:Becky Taylor [Taylor, Becky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Emigration & Immigration, Great Britain, Europe, Minority Studies, Modern, Social Science, 20th Century, Social History, History, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781847796813
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2008-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Strange, Born on the straw, 193–4.

2 E. MacColl and P. Seeger, I’m a freeborn man, and other original radio ballads and songs of British workingmen, Gypsies, prize-fighters, teenagers – and contemporary songs of struggle and conscience (New York, 1968), 15.

3 Ministry of Housing and Local Government (hereafter MHLG), Gypsies and other Travellers (London, 1967).

4 Acton, Gypsy politics, 47.

5 Strange, Born on the straw, 185.

6 Acton, Gypsy politics, 46–7.

7 D. Reeve, Whichever way we turn (London, 1964), 20–1.

8 There had been developmental work on hop, potato and sugar beet harvesting during the 1930s and the war, but widespread mechanisation mainly took place in the two decades after 1945. Thanks to Jonathan Brown, Museum for English Rural Life, Reading, for this information.

9 Leitch, Book of Sandy Stewart, 88.

10 Acton, Gypsy politics, 44.

11 D. Reeve, Smoke in the lanes (London, 1958), 85.

12 Jim Riley quoted in Sandford, Gypsies, 50.

13 HRO, H/WLF1/3, county welfare officer, ‘Survey of Gypsies and Travellers’, 1962.

14 MHLG, Gypsies and other Travellers, 34; and H. Gentleman and S. Swift (eds), Scotland’s Travelling People (Edinburgh, 1971).

15 Acton , Gypsy politics, 44–5.

16 Sandford, Gypsies, 4.

17 Association of Chief Police Officers’ Archive, The Open University Milton Keynes (hereafter ACPO), National Gypsy Council, ‘Site provision in Britain: A short briefing paper’ (July 1992).

18 ACPO, Department of the Environment (hereafter DoE), ‘The accommodation needs of long-distance and regional Travellers: A consultation paper’ (February 1982).

19 Acton, Gypsy politics, 207.

20 MHLG, Gypsies and other Travellers, 3.

21 Section 127 of the 1959 Highways Act.

22 ‘The unromantic Gypsies’, Picture Post (28 July 1951).

23 Reeve, Whichever way we turn, 30.

24 In 1939 Britain had 12.5 million houses. Nearly a third were destroyed or damaged during the war, and the majority of the remainder were not repaired during these years. Added to this was the baby boom – there were 33% more births in 1945–48 than in 1936–39. See M. Foot, Aneurin Bevan, vol. I (London, 1962), 65–6.

25 The raids of 1940–41 made 2.25 million people homeless; two-thirds of these were from the London area. Failures of local authorities in coping with the bombed-out homeless are dealt with in R. M. Titmuss, Problems of social policy (London and Nendeln, 1952), 251–8.

26 N. Dodds, Gypsies, didikois and other Travellers (London, 1966), 37.

27 ‘When Gypsies squat’, Ipswich Evening Star (29 August 1946). See also ‘Stay put Gypsies turfed out of Corston’, Bath Chronicle (14 December 1946). For a general outline of the squatting movement see C. Ward, ‘The hidden history of housing’, History and Policy papers, www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-25.html, accessed April 2006. For central government’s reaction to the squatting crisis see MoH Circular 174/46, ‘Squatters’, reported in The Sanitarian, 55 (1946), 119.

28 H. J. Heeley, ‘The need for and control of moveable dwellings’, Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 70:5 (1950), 560.

29 TNA, HLG 52/1527, letter ‘Caravans and emergency housing’, National Caravan Council to MoH, 26 November 1946.

30 Ibid., minutes of meeting between Ministry of Supply and the National Caravan Council, 21 December 1948.

31 HRO, 59M76/DDC207, MoH to Hartley-Wintney RDC, 14 June 1950.

32 Heeley, ‘Moveable dwellings’, 553–4.

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