The Roma: A Travelling History with Madeline Potter

The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widely known and understood, and that invisibility has created a space where fear and hostility continue to thrive.

The Roma is a powerful corrective to the stereotyping and prejudices still faced by Romani communities, a celebration of survival – of resilience and resistance in the face of prejudice and persecution. Madeline Potter was born in Romania in 1989 and grew up Romani in nineties post-Communist Romania. She now lives in Scotland and is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Edinburgh.