The Tinker experiment

It was supported by the UK government, the Church of Scotland and Scottish local authorities. Nomadic families risked having their children ...

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 Uglier Side of Bonnie Scotland: the Tinker Housing Experiments

The corollary of these investigations will conclude that the human rights of Scottish Gypsy Travellers have been irrefutably violated under ...

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', ...

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.

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 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 ...

Commission Hears the Human Rights Concerns of the Gypsy ...

Gypsy Travellers from across Scotland have highlighted significant human rights issues facing the community to the Scottish Human Rights Commission.

History on the edge - the Tinker Experiments: A response - Ayeright

I've spoken many times to Shamus and Roseanna McPhee about the Tinker Experiments and the impact that living in the one remaining housing ...

'We are planned out of the area': the Gypsy Travellers in Scotland ...

A community in Pitlochry contends a brewing company's scheme will make them feel unsafe and threatens surrounding woodland and wildlife.

The Tinker Experiments - GRTHM.scot

Lynne Tammi is in conversation with Roseanna McPhee and Shamus McPhee about the Tinker Experiments.

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 ...

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 ...

Terror Times: The Tinker Experiments - Erasmus Research

By Dr Lynne Tammi. On 20th May 1895 George Otto Trevelyan, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, laid before parliament the report of ...

The Tinker Experiments: Child trafficking - Crowdfunder

Cost of a trip to the 'holding site' in Canada where Scottish Gypsy Traveller children were trafficked to during the 20th century.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.