RomMig is a three year AHRC-DFG funded project investigating and making visible a series of historical Romani migrations between the UK and Germany (1880s-1910)
Latest posts from our blog
- Reflections on working with Polish archives
In November 2024, Josephine Lena Winterwerb, a Master’s student from the University of Münster, joined the RomMig Project as a student assistant, working with archival materials from the Polish State Archives. In this invited… Read more: Reflections on working with Polish archives - Eve’s Chapter Published
We are pleased to announce the publication of Eve Rosenhaft´s chapter in the recently released volume The Routledge Handbook of Information History (edited by Toni Weller, Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak & Laura Skouvig / Routledge 2026). The chapter “Information and Mobility: Migrants and Roma as Historical Cases” (pp. 442-456), explores… Read more: Eve’s Chapter Published - The Lower Saxony Runder Tisch (Round Table): A Political Breakthrough for the Sinti and Roma Communities
On 19 August 2025, a new standing forum for discussion and policy making on issues affecting the Sinti and Roma communities in Lower Saxony was formally launched. The event, organised by the Lower Saxony… Read more: The Lower Saxony Runder Tisch (Round Table): A Political Breakthrough for the Sinti and Roma Communities - Mapping the 1906 Journey
In this blog, RomMig Co-Lead Tamara West introduces the interactive 1906 ‘StoryMap’ One of the key events informing the RomMig project is the 1906 migration of two hundred German Roma and Sinti to the UK.… Read more: Mapping the 1906 Journey - Research in the Archives of the GLS
This Summer, Megan Thomas from the University of Liverpool undertook a Masters Research Internship supervised by RomMig Co-I Tamara West and by Katy Hooper from the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. In… Read more: Research in the Archives of the GLS
