Based on rich archival sources, this timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain, demonstrating how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society.
'Another Darkness, Another Dawn' charts the history of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers - some of the most marginalised and vilified people in society - through time and place, from 15th century India to modern-day Europe.
This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare. -- .