True crime stories ripped from the headlines for TV productions are just like all adaptations in that some facts are inevitably turned into fiction. A curious neighbor might be created, the timing of ...

When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...

ACOORDING to a Hungarian proverb, all a man needs to get drunk is a glass of water and a gypsy fiddler. A real gypsy. Most of the primases (leaders) that you hear these days in the night clubs of New ...

Jo Richardson is currently undertaking a piece of research on negotiated stopping with London Gypsy Travellers, funded by the Greater London Authority. It’s election time again. That means hustings, ...

A family of Romani Gypsies have lifted the lid on their ‘proud’ traditions, busting myths peddled by TV shows and revealing how life revolves around food, family – and bleach. The family of 15 adults ...