Today's image from the Historic England Archive records Mr Wisken cutting reeds on the marshes near Horning Ferry, Norfolk. It was taken #OnThisDay in 1949.
Photographer Hallam Ashley was keen to record threatened or disappearing ways of life👇
https://t.co/Ss9xWVusCY
#Archives
“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)
With a historically nomadic culture, it could be assumed that tangible remains of Romani Gypsies are hard to spot.
@johnhenry185 reflects on whether Romani Gypsy history has been forgotten or overlooked.
Watch the full film on our blog ➡️ https://t.co/FQodQjR8HP
#WeAreHistoric
Today is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day.
On this day, we remember the 2,897 Roma and Sinti who were killed at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 2nd August 1944. (1/3)
A new film, funded by @LankellyChase, made by @bowers_jake for Aye Right’s This Land Project has just been released to create greater awareness and understanding of nomadic communities cultural and traditional practices.
Click here to watch: https://t.co/YGJ4KrJF5y
Romani poet @RaineGeoghegan5 was the joint winner in the Wee Sparrow Poetry Competition last week with her poem "Chickens in a Pen"
Read the winning poem here: https://t.co/Oc4hfnDfGS
“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air”
#HedgeLaying#ELGrantWatson#CFTunnicliffe