Online author event with Yaron Matras
Join us as we meet with Yaron Matras who wrote ‘I Met Lucky People – the story of Romany Gypsies’.
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Free
In I Met Lucky People - the story of the Romany Gypsies Professor Yaron Matras gives us the first comprehensive account of their culture, language and history. It is a story of the echoes of a rich past left in language and customs, and of how the changing fortunes of Europe throughout the centuries have been imprinted on Romani culture.
Who are the Romani people?
The Romani are a nation like few others: without territory, national sovereignty or formal institutions, and with no tradition of agriculture or ownership of land. As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral culture, they have no written record of their history that can be consulted.
Unlike other groups who have won a measure of inclusion in recent decades, they have struggled to have their voice heard. If they are to have a future, it is time we brought our thinking about them out of the dark ages and into the modern world.