This book critically examines the nature and source of Gypsy stereotypes.

This study is the first attempt at a historical analysis of British Gypsy-travellers, revealing the distinctive way of life and economy of the group and the man

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times?

This volume hopes to act as a catalyst for some new and exciting areas of enquiry in the more “liminal” interstices of Irish Studies, Traveller Studies, Rom

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into