Apology demanded for gypsy traveller 'Tinker Experiment'

Apology demanded for gypsy traveller 'Tinker Experiment' - BBC

The operation saw families of gypsy travellers forced to leave their lives on the road and live in hutted settlements.

Scandal of The Tinker Experiment: demands for apology over ...

Members of the travelling community are demanding an official apology from the Scottish Government for what they call Scotland's secret shame.

Communications relating to the Tinker Experiment: FOI review

All government emails , letters or memos or internal notes or transcripted telephone calls regarding The Tinker Experiment and any reference to an apology.

Families torn apart in experiment seek government apology - YouTube

The Scottish traveller community is demanding an apology from the Scottish government over claims of historical mistreatment dating back to ...

Making Rights Real, Scotland - ohchr

Tarvit Mill, Cupar, Fife. A community of 100+ Gypsy Travellers living at Tarvit Mill - a Local Authority provided Gypsy Traveller site in Fife - ...

"Tinker Housing experiments": FOI release - gov.scot

The Scottish Government recognise that the Gypsy/Traveller community has faced - and continues to face - significant discrimination, and has been subject to ...

Cultural recognition of Scotland's Gypsy Travellers | SHRC Spotlight ...

However, people don't always have equal access to this right. The Scottish Gypsy Traveller Community have told us they were victims of the 'Tinker Experiment', ...

The Tinker experiment - Bylines Scotland

The Tinker Experiment lasted from 1940 until 1980 and was a programme designed to integrate gypsy travellers into mainstream society.

The 'cultural genocide' of Scotland's Gypsy Traveller community

Shamus was the youngest of nine children to Scottish Gypsy Travellers Agnes Johnstone and Charles McPhee. The tiny curved steel hut, situated in ...

Gypsy 'Tinker experiment' victims speak out - The Times

Gypsy travellers who were forced into shabby settlements have demanded a formal apology from Scottish ministers.Efforts were made to ...

ALBA supports calls for Government apology for post-war "Tinker ...

The so called "Tinker Experiment" saw members of the travelling community placed in geographically detached from the rest of society, in a bid to break them ...

'I'm marching to Holyrood to demand apology for… - Inkl

A CAMPAIGNER is marching to Holyrood to demand an apology from the Scottish Government for the historic discrimination of the gypsy ...

Montrose walker seeks apology for 'trafficked' Scottish Travellers

Fife-raised Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly trekked from her home at Ferryden to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to raise awareness of the 'Tinker Experiment'.

Scandal of Scotland's 'Tinker Experiment'

“A programme of eugenics saw Gypsy Travellers separated out on racial grounds for removal from Scottish society. This marked a top-down, ...

New report due on decades-long 'Tinker Experiment' that 'decimated ...

It was a decades-long social experiment that “decimated” the lives of gypsy travellers in Scotland. Now fresh light is to be cast on the so-called “Tinker ...

History on the edge – the Tinker experiment - Bylines Scotland

This programme examines the deep-seated prejudice that still prevails against gypsy travellers by members of the settled community.

Invitation to Quote: Gypsy Traveller Research Project

An exploration of the denial of the rights to cultural recognition of Scotland's Gypsy. Travellers and its impact, both past and present. QUOTE ...

Nicola Sturgeon considers formal apology for gypsy travellers ...

The "tinker experiment" lasted from 1940 until 1980 and was a programme designed to integrate gypsy travellers into mainstream society.

'Tinker Experiment' campaigners accuse Scottish Government of ...

Campaigners seeking a formal apology over a decades-long social experiment that “decimated” the lives of gypsy travellers have accused Scottish ministers of ...

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller | The National

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller · The roots – and varied routes – of International Roma Day in Scotland · Is the Gypsy Traveller community's ethnic minority status ...