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URIAH 'Big Just' BURTON (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist
'Uriah is probably best known among Travellers as a bare-knuckle fighter. However, he was also known as an activist who not only fought for the rights of Romany Gypsies and Travellers but also made a stand for law and order and for peace in Ireland. [...] Uriah also used his skill and notoriety as a fighter to support his activist campaigns. In 1978, he walked from Dublin to Belfast to publicise his campaign for peace in Ireland. On 24 February 1979, as Uriah was preparing to make another walk, the Belfast Telegraph published a report stating that he had offered to step into the boxing ring and meet anyone who objected to his peace theories. Uriah apparently added that he would not attack but only defend himself.' -- Norman Burton
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-URI-1926
Image: https://vr4280.wixsite.com/histor.../traveller-and-gypsy-bkb
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📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
URIAH 'Big Just' BURTON (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist
'Uriah is probably best known among Travellers as a bare-knuckle fighter. However, he was also known as an activist who not only fought for the rights of Romany Gypsies and Travellers but also made a stand for law and order and for peace in Ireland. [...] Uriah also used his skill and notoriety as a fighter to support his activist campaigns. In 1978, he walked from Dublin to Belfast to publicise his campaign for peace in Ireland. On 24 February 1979, as Uriah was preparing to make another walk, the Belfast Telegraph published a report stating that he had offered to step into the boxing ring and meet anyone who objected to his peace theories. Uriah apparently added that he would not attack but only defend himself.' -- Norman Burton
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-URI-1926
Image: https://vr4280.wixsite.com/histor.../traveller-and-gypsy-bkb
#GRTHistory #DiversityProject #Wales -
📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
URIAH 'Big Just' BURTON (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist
'Uriah is probably best known among Travellers as a bare-knuckle fighter. However, he was also known as an activist who not only fought for the rights of Romany Gypsies and Travellers but also made a stand for law and order and for peace in Ireland. [...] Uriah also used his skill and notoriety as a fighter to support his activist campaigns. In 1978, he walked from Dublin to Belfast to publicise his campaign for peace in Ireland. On 24 February 1979, as Uriah was preparing to make another walk, the Belfast Telegraph published a report stating that he had offered to step into the boxing ring and meet anyone who objected to his peace theories. Uriah apparently added that he would not attack but only defend himself.' -- Norman Burton
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-URI-1926
Image: https://vr4280.wixsite.com/histor.../traveller-and-gypsy-bkb
#GRTHistory #DiversityProject #Wales -
📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
URIAH 'Big Just' BURTON (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist
'Uriah is probably best known among Travellers as a bare-knuckle fighter. However, he was also known as an activist who not only fought for the rights of Romany Gypsies and Travellers but also made a stand for law and order and for peace in Ireland. [...] Uriah also used his skill and notoriety as a fighter to support his activist campaigns. In 1978, he walked from Dublin to Belfast to publicise his campaign for peace in Ireland. On 24 February 1979, as Uriah was preparing to make another walk, the Belfast Telegraph published a report stating that he had offered to step into the boxing ring and meet anyone who objected to his peace theories. Uriah apparently added that he would not attack but only defend himself.' -- Norman Burton
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-URI-1926
Image: https://vr4280.wixsite.com/histor.../traveller-and-gypsy-bkb
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Starting with the XML mark-up for one of our most colourful nominees for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. It's going to be a long-haul because it's filled to the brim with new names we haven't previously recorded (we have a database that holds the data to every single person mentioned in the Bywg -- at this point it's over 30k names and associated data), so it might take me more than a day to prepare this piece. But do keep your eyes peeled. It contains the story behind one of Wales's most unusual monuments dedicated to a person's memory.
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Starting with the XML mark-up for one of our most colourful nominees for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. It's going to be a long-haul because it's filled to the brim with new names we haven't previously recorded (we have a database that holds the data to every single person mentioned in the Bywg -- at this point it's over 30k names and associated data), so it might take me more than a day to prepare this piece. But do keep your eyes peeled. It contains the story behind one of Wales's most unusual monuments dedicated to a person's memory.
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Starting with the XML mark-up for one of our most colourful nominees for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. It's going to be a long-haul because it's filled to the brim with new names we haven't previously recorded (we have a database that holds the data to every single person mentioned in the Bywg -- at this point it's over 30k names and associated data), so it might take me more than a day to prepare this piece. But do keep your eyes peeled. It contains the story behind one of Wales's most unusual monuments dedicated to a person's memory.
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Starting with the XML mark-up for one of our most colourful nominees for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. It's going to be a long-haul because it's filled to the brim with new names we haven't previously recorded (we have a database that holds the data to every single person mentioned in the Bywg -- at this point it's over 30k names and associated data), so it might take me more than a day to prepare this piece. But do keep your eyes peeled. It contains the story behind one of Wales's most unusual monuments dedicated to a person's memory.
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For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.
'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins
https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500
Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
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For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.
'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins
https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500
Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales -
For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.
'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins
https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500
Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
#GRTHistory #HanesGRT #Wales -
For #InternationalDayofFamilies today, the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur is celebrating the Wood family.
'There are of course other tribes of gipsies in Wales, such as the Ingram's, the Boswell's, and the Lovell's, but the Wood's deserve special mention, for two reasons. In the first place, the tribe is so large and wide-spread that the expression ' Abram Wood's family' (in some places called ' Alabama's family') became a generic term in the rural areas for gipsies as such [...]. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists.' -- Robert Thomas Jenkins
https://biography.wales/article/s-WOOD-SIP-1500
Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../File:Abram_Wood%27s...
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It's Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers History Month. I'll be singing traditional songs by GRT people, about English Romany and Scottish Traveller history, to various groups of people. And I'll be listening especially carefully to othered people.
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It's Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers History Month. I'll be singing traditional songs by GRT people, about English Romany and Scottish Traveller history, to various groups of people. And I'll be listening especially carefully to othered people.
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It's Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers History Month. I'll be singing traditional songs by GRT people, about English Romany and Scottish Traveller history, to various groups of people. And I'll be listening especially carefully to othered people.
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It's Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers History Month. I'll be singing traditional songs by GRT people, about English Romany and Scottish Traveller history, to various groups of people. And I'll be listening especially carefully to othered people.
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It's Gypsies, Romanies, and Travellers History Month. I'll be singing traditional songs by GRT people, about English Romany and Scottish Traveller history, to various groups of people. And I'll be listening especially carefully to othered people.
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CW: Probably unpopular opinions about classism and racism in The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes.
I was suspicious of The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes because of the positive blurbs on the front cover from Spectator magazine and right-winger Robert Macfarlane and I was regrettably correct. This is the most middle class, white, male take on trespass I can possibly imagine. By page 21 Hayes is dismissing the 1932 Kinder mass trespass as irrelevant to the ruling and middle classes, who are the author's exclusive interests. He doesn't mention the larger 1896 Winter Hill mass trespass at all. By page 70 Hayes claims legislation against the people he wrongly calls "Roma", i.e. people who name themselves Romani and Kale and Gypsies, is based on their physical mobility not racism or cultural differences, although he does subsequently give a brief acknowledgement to "social mobility" (there's another dodgy GRT claim too, that I don't have time to deconstruct now). Oh, and until page 98 the "trespass" he personally participates in is all either permitted or semi-permitted by the legal power-holder and is an optional leisure choice, never a geographical or social necessity.
Not looking forward to reading his takes on Greenham Common tbh. Should I just stop reading and donate the book now? Or read that section first to find out if I can tolerate another 250 pages of this?
#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #UK #books #reading #GRTHistory #WorkingClassHistory #RightToRoam
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CW: Probably unpopular opinions about classism and racism in The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes.
I was suspicious of The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes because of the positive blurbs on the front cover from Spectator magazine and right-winger Robert Macfarlane and I was regrettably correct. This is the most middle class, white, male take on trespass I can possibly imagine. By page 21 Hayes is dismissing the 1932 Kinder mass trespass as irrelevant to the ruling and middle classes, who are the author's exclusive interests. He doesn't mention the larger 1896 Winter Hill mass trespass at all. By page 70 Hayes claims legislation against the people he wrongly calls "Roma", i.e. people who name themselves Romani and Kale and Gypsies, is based on their physical mobility not racism or cultural differences, although he does subsequently give a brief acknowledgement to "social mobility" (there's another dodgy GRT claim too, that I don't have time to deconstruct now). Oh, and until page 98 the "trespass" he personally participates in is all either permitted or semi-permitted by the legal power-holder and is an optional leisure choice, never a geographical or social necessity.
Not looking forward to reading his takes on Greenham Common tbh. Should I just stop reading and donate the book now? Or read that section first to find out if I can tolerate another 250 pages of this?
#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #UK #books #reading #GRTHistory #WorkingClassHistory #RightToRoam