No Place to Call Home
eBook - ePub

No Place to Call Home

Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

No Place to Call Home

Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers

About this book

The shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a home They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to settle down – but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community in Essex was evicted from their land. Many did not leave quietly; they put up a legal and at times physical fight.Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby takes us into the heat of the battle, following the Sheridan, McCarthy, Burton and Townsley families before and after the eviction, from Dale Farm to Meriden and other trouble spots. Based on exclusive access over the course of seven years and rich historical research, No Place to Call Home is a stunning narrative of long-sought justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Prologue
  3. 1 • ‘Chance of a Lifetime’
  4. 2 • Neighbours and Nomads
  5. 3 • Never Again
  6. 4 • New Travellers and the Eye of Sauron
  7. 5 • Things Can Only Get Better
  8. 6 • Payback
  9. 7 • ‘We Will Not Leave’
  10. 8 • Eviction
  11. 9 • Clinging to the Wreckage
  12. 10 • Caught
  13. 11 • Gypsy War in Meriden
  14. 12 • Targeted
  15. 13 • Life on the Margins
  16. 14 • Revival