The Broad Definition of a "Gypsy"

 

I read No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers, by Katharine Quarmby, in part to learn about modern Roma life.  This book, however, is not strictly about the Roma, although they are featured.  Rather, it is about a confusing (for an American) array of road people in Britain.   These people seemed to have caused much consternation among settled peoples in the 1990s and early 2000s.  This is their story.