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The first groups of Romani people arrived in Great Britain by the end of the 15th century, running from the conflicts in Southeastern Europe (the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans). In 1505, there are recorded Roma persons in Scotland, probably arrived from Spain. The same as in the rest of Western Europe they were received with suspicion by a local monocultural population unaccustomed to foreigners. Soon the leadership passed laws aiming at stopping the Roma immigration and at the assimilation of those already settled. Under the Reign of Henry VIII, the Egyptians Act 1530 banned Roma from entering the country and required those living in the country to leave within 16 days. Failure to do so could result in confiscation of property, imprisonment and deportation. The act was amended, under the reign of King Philip I of Spain and Queen Mary I Tudor, with the Egyptians Act 1554, which removed the threat of punishment to Roma if they abandoned their "naughty, idle and ungodly life and company" and adopted a settled lifestyle. However, for those who failed to adhere to a sedentary existence, the punishment was upped to execution. A new law, in 1562, offers the possibility of becoming citizens for the Roma born in England and Wales, if they assimilate in the local population. Despite this legislation, the Roma population managed to survive, but was forced to a marginal lifestyle and subjected to continuous discrimination from the state authorities and many of the local non-Roma. In one event, in 1596, 106 men and women were condemned to death at York just for being Roma, but only nine were executed. The others were able to prove that they were born in England. From the years 1780s, gradually, the anti-Roma laws were repealed, although not all.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, after England acquired the first colonies, Roma were periodically rounded up and deported, first to Caribbean, then also to North America and Australia. Many times, those deported in this manner did not survive as an ethnic group, because of the separations after the round up, the sea passage and the subsequent settlement as slaves, all destroying the social fabric. At the same time, voluntary emigration began to the English colonies. Roma groups that survived, continued the expression of the Roma culture there.
The identity of the Romnichals was formed in the years 1660-1800, as a Roma group living in Britain. In the 1830s, the first wooden horse-drawn covered waggons used by them were reported.
In the first phase of the Second World War, the Nazis drew up lists of Roma individuals (many of them Romnichals) and persons with Roma ascendency from the United Kingdom to be interned and subjected to Porajmos in the eventuality of this country's occupation.
The crisis of the 1960s decade, caused by the Caravan Sites Act (stopping new private sites being built until 1972), determines the appearance of the British Gypsy Council to fight for the rights of the Romnichals.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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