Travelling Communities: Voices from the Margins

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“Stories live on in family homes and backyards, in roads and streets,
schools, churches, factories and parks. Memories live on in all the places
and spaces in which migrant families worked hard to make a living”

Cities are imagined as permanent spaces, but they are also occupied by those whose lives exist in transition on the so called ‘margins’ of society.

• What are traveller’s experiences of Birmingham?
• What histories of ‘travelling communities’ are collected in archives?
• How have travellers been perceived and represented in the media?
• How have experiences of ‘homelessness’ been represented in Birmingham?
• Do you have a story to share?

Further links and research:

Connecting Histories -
Migration and Settlement in 20th Century Birmingham: Migration as a Way of Life

Slavery and Abolition
research guide
coming soon