Searching for Romani Gypsy Heritage with John Henry Phillips
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Romani Gypsies arrived in the United Kingdom over 500 years ago, leaving an indelible mark on everything from art, music, and film to food, language, and politics.
It could be assumed that with a culture historically centred around nomadism, tangible remains of this ethnicity are hard to spot. But the heritage of Romani Gypsies is all around us, seen in street names, old stopping places, at crossroads, cemeteries and meadows.
In this short film, archaeologist and broadcaster John Henry Phillips explores the Suffolk countryside where he grew up to search for what remains and reflect on whether Romani Gypsy history has been forgotten or overlooked.
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John Henry Phillips is an author, archaeologist, and filmmaker. He co-founded the non-profit Romani Community Archaeology, which excavates historic Romani sites alongside present-day Romani communities. John Henry is the author of The Search, presenter of Channel 4’s The Great British Dig, and created PBS’s No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave.
'Searching for Romani Gypsy Heritage' was created and composed by John Henry Phillips.
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It was great to make this film and highlight such an overlooked part of Britain's heritage!
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Thank you for making it! 🙏
As someone who is so proud of their Romany heritage I really enjoyed this. You have a voice that leaves us wanting to hear more. Please consider sharing more of our beautiful Romany heritage history. Thank you John Henry Phillips x🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
For some reason I had never even thought or heard of the existence of gypsy graves.
That was a great little film, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You'll have to keep an eye out for them now! Glad you enjoyed the film
This film is beautifully narrated, and in fact, the thoughts tossed our way are so pithy as to be provocative, leaving me to feel it is too short an experience for the rich quality of ideas and the attention they clearly deserve from the modern world.
Thank you.
The 'Ezzies' of Shropshire are a great example of a travelling family settled down. Their grandad, Ezekiah and his family used to camp in their horse-pulled gypsy caravan at certain times of the year on a grass verge close to my Grandad's house at Coptiviney, Ellesmere. Lovely people. Their children were so polite in school my Auntied remembered.
This was incredibly moving, informative and fascinating - thank you John Henry Phillips and Historic England
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it
Thank you, Frances. Really pleased you enjoyed the video.
Belo e delicado! muito significativo! Parabéns!
Thank you!
Kudos for bringing so much meaning by sound, visuals, and verbally in such a compact form. The cultural landscape teems with meanings, memories, stories, and consequences that touch past and future, both. Having a springboard at the end of the viewing so we can go to learn more would magnify the significance of the project, too. A gallery of stills, audio, and things to read all come to mind, for instance.
Thanks so much! Historic England are releasing a blog with more information next week
Thank you, really pleased you enjoyed the video. You can read more about Romani Gypsy heritage here: heritagecalling.com/2024/07/16/a-brief-introduction-to-romani-gypsy-heritage-in-england/
This is fantastic. Thank you
Appreciate it!
Wonderful
Thank you
I miss leaving with my family full of love we lived they way we love free and wonder
Thanks for sharing
Excellent
Cheers Mark!
Poignant. Beautiful.
Thank you Damian! I'm glad you enjoyed the film
Thank you
Such a moving testament.
Thank you!
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Moving.
(Replied after my third viewing, to be clear! I like to watch something a few times at different times, in different moods.)
Thank you, really pleased you enjoyed it.
@@HistoricEngland Really made me think (as I do fairly often already) about just how long this oppression has been going on, and that branched out into all sorts of useful thought about how history can turn to action once understood. Alongside perhaps more obvious thoughts on the depth of sorrow there is in the loss of those places which are touchstones to our social lives, whether those are widely separated or densely, and how this is common to all of us no matter how we live our lives. So! Yes. Very much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing. If you're interested, you can read more about Romani Gypsy heritage here: heritagecalling.com/2024/07/16/a-brief-introduction-to-romani-gypsy-heritage-in-england/
@@HistoricEngland Thank you, I am indeed!
This is excellent, well done. One of my favourite and most informative songs is Ralph McTell's song simply called 'Gypsy', with the immortal lines: 'If the gypsy cannot dance, in your heart you may discover, that the flame needs air to burn, and soon it'll be all over.' ua-cam.com/video/APmOegNXJ8s/v-deo.html
Thank you, Paul. Pleased you enjoyed the video.
Im Romani
Thanks for your comment
Romany is spelt with a Y in english . Romani is European spelling .
Romani is the overall term for the worldwide ethnicity, so the use of the 'i' spelling in this case is deliberate
Hi, yes, many British Romani Gypsies use the spelling Romany and are also known as Romanichal (part of the broader Roma ethnicity). We have chosen to use the more widely used spelling of Romani, but you’re right that some would say Romany Gypsy.
You can read more about Romani Gypsy heritage in England here: heritagecalling.com/2024/07/16/a-brief-introduction-to-romani-gypsy-heritage-in-england/
@HistoricEngland you spelt it wrong there as well . Very un British. I've mentioned James squire on UA-cam a few times . And his grandson furnham the premier. My mother's people from one those compounds in new forest .
Glad to see you recognising Chaplin , I listened to no such thing as a fish podcast on Chaplin life and the did not mention it . We know it is true . So many times people don't see the gypsy till something bad has happened.
P/s joking bout spelling , I don't really care , it's you people that make the spelling up lol