RomMig is a three year AHRC-DFG funded project investigating and making visible a series of historical Romani migrations between the UK and Germany (1880s-1910)
Latest posts from our blog
- Mapping the 1906 Journey
In this blog, RomMig Co-Lead Tamara West introduces the interactive 1906 ‘StoryMap’ One of the key events informing the RomMig project is the 1906 migration of two hundred German Roma and Sinti to the UK.… Read more: Mapping the 1906 Journey - Research in the Archives of the GLS
This Summer, Megan Thomas from the University of Liverpool undertook a Masters Research Internship supervised by RomMig Co-I Tamara West and by Katy Hooper from the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. In… Read more: Research in the Archives of the GLS - RomMig Team at the Sinti Music Festival
On 14 September, Eve Rosenhaft and Volha Bartash, who joins RomMig as our new research team member (Welcome Volha!), travelled to Osnabrück for the Sinti Music Festival organised by our cooperation partner Mario Franz… Read more: RomMig Team at the Sinti Music Festival - Eve Rosenhaft Awarded European History Quarterly Article Prize
Congratulations to RomMig’s Eve Rosenhaft! Her article, Romani Berlin: ‘Gypsy’ Presence, the Culture of the Horse Market and the Shaping of Urban Space 1890–1933, was chosen as the winner of the European History Quarterly Article Prize 2022. The… Read more: Eve Rosenhaft Awarded European History Quarterly Article Prize - Lessons from the history of anti-gypsyism – engaging and transforming public agencies
One of the key themes of the RomMig project is the practices by which Sinti and Roma were policed in Germany and Britain and across Europe. European states and societies shared the project of… Read more: Lessons from the history of anti-gypsyism – engaging and transforming public agencies
