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| '''New Age travellers''' |
'''New Age travellers''', not completely synonymous with but otherwise shortened to '''New Travellers'''<ref>https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_ESP_171_0073--on-the-road-new-travellers-and-their.htm {{Bare URL inline|date=March 2022}}</ref> (often referred to as "'''crusties'''"), are people in the United Kingdom generally espousing ] beliefs along with the ] culture of the 1960s (overlapping with ]), and who used to travel between free ]s and fairs prior to crackdown in the 1990s, who now congregate in community with others who hold similar beliefs on various authorised and unauthorised sites. | ||
| A New Traveller's transport and home may consist of |
A New Traveller's transport and home may consist of ], ], lorry, bus, car, or caravan converted into a ] while also making use of an improvised ], ], or ]. "New Age" travellers largely originated in 1980s and early 1990s Britain,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://subcultureslist.com/new-age-travellers/|title = New Age Travellers - a traveller lifestyle and subculture in Britain}}</ref> when they were described as crusties because of the association with "encrusted dirt, dirt as a deliberate embrace of grotesquerie, a statement of resistance against society, proof of nomadic hardship."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fox |first1=Dan |title=24-Hour Party People: How Britain's New Age Traveler movement defined a zeitgeist |journal=World Policy Journal |date=3 April 2018 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=3–9 |doi=10.1215/07402775-6894684 |s2cid=158322983 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689308/summary |language=en |issn=1936-0924}}</ref> | ||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
| ===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
| The movement originated in the ]s of the 1960s and 1970s<ref name=newold>{{cite web|title=New Travellers, Old Story | url=http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/research_docs/Heritage%20pack_v5.pdf|publisher=The Children's Society|access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> such as the ], the early ]s, ]s, and the huge ]s in ]. However, there were longstanding precedents for travelling cultures in Great Britain, including travelling ], itinerant ] and traders, as well as ] groups and others.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ivakhiv|first1=Adrian|title=Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona|date=2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-33899-9|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNHTOvnZ3poC&q=romany+%22peace+convoy%22&pg=PA89}}</ref> | The movement originated in the ]s of the 1960s and 1970s<ref name=newold>{{cite web|title=New Travellers, Old Story | url=http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/research_docs/Heritage%20pack_v5.pdf|publisher=The Children's Society|access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> such as the ], the early ]s, ]s, and the huge ]s in ]. However, there were longstanding precedents for travelling cultures in Great Britain, including travelling ], itinerant ] and traders, as well as ] groups and others.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ivakhiv|first1=Adrian|title=Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona|date=2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-33899-9|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNHTOvnZ3poC&q=romany+%22peace+convoy%22&pg=PA89}}</ref> Later events included the ], a huge free and unlicensed event which attracted widespread media coverage and prompted government action. Some legal festivals, such as ], continue to take place in a variety of countries, including the UK. | ||
| ===Peace convoy=== | ===Peace convoy=== | ||
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| In the UK during the 1980s the travellers' mobile homes—generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double-deckers)—moved in convoys. One group of travellers came to be known as the Peace Convoy after visits to ] associated with the ] (CND).<ref name=newold /> The movement had faced significant opposition from the British government and from mainstream media, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent the ], and the resultant ] in 1985—resulting in what was, according to the ], one of the largest mass arrests of civilians since at least the ],<ref> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/feb/22/features.magazine27 whilst other commentators see it as possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.</ref> possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.<ref name="Maconie2014">{{cite book|author=Stuart Maconie|title=The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_q4rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA356|year=2014|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=978-0-09-193380-7|pages=356–}}</ref> | In the UK during the 1980s the travellers' mobile homes—generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double-deckers)—moved in convoys. One group of travellers came to be known as the Peace Convoy after visits to ] associated with the ] (CND).<ref name=newold /> The movement had faced significant opposition from the British government and from mainstream media, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent the ], and the resultant ] in 1985—resulting in what was, according to the ], one of the largest mass arrests of civilians since at least the ],<ref> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/feb/22/features.magazine27 whilst other commentators see it as possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.</ref> possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.<ref name="Maconie2014">{{cite book|author=Stuart Maconie|title=The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_q4rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA356|year=2014|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=978-0-09-193380-7|pages=356–}}</ref> | ||
| In 1986 and later years police again blocked travellers from "taking the Stones" on the ]. This led |
In 1986 and later years police again blocked travellers from "taking the Stones" on the ]. This led Travelers to spend summers ] by the hundreds on several sites adjacent to the ] in Wiltshire. | ||
| Later events included the ], a huge free and unlicensed event which attracted widespread media coverage and prompted government action. Some legal festivals, such as ], continue to take place in a variety of countries, including the UK. | |||
| ===Outside the UK=== | ===Outside the UK=== | ||
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"Crusties" redirects here. For eye crusties, see rheum. Category of people in the UK living alternative lifestyles This article is about the UK subculture. For the musical genre sometimes termed crusty, see crust punk. For the similar New Zealand subculture, see housetrucker. Vehicles used by New Age travellers | |
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| New Age |
New Age travellers, not completely synonymous with but otherwise shortened to New Travellers (often referred to as "crusties"), are people in the United Kingdom generally espousing New Age beliefs along with the hippie culture of the 1960s (overlapping with Bohemianism), and who used to travel between free music festivals and fairs prior to crackdown in the 1990s, who now congregate in community with others who hold similar beliefs on various authorised and unauthorised sites.
A New Traveller's transport and home may consist of living in a van, "gypsy" Vardo wagon, lorry, bus, car, or caravan converted into a mobile home while also making use of an improvised bender tent, tipi, or yurt. "New Age" travellers largely originated in 1980s and early 1990s Britain, when they were described as crusties because of the association with "encrusted dirt, dirt as a deliberate embrace of grotesquerie, a statement of resistance against society, proof of nomadic hardship."
History
Origins
The movement originated in the free festivals of the 1960s and 1970s such as the Windsor Free Festival, the early Glastonbury Festivals, Elephant Fayres, and the huge Stonehenge Free Festivals in Great Britain. However, there were longstanding precedents for travelling cultures in Great Britain, including travelling pilgrims, itinerant journeymen and traders, as well as Romani groups and others. Later events included the Castlemorton Common Festival, a huge free and unlicensed event which attracted widespread media coverage and prompted government action. Some legal festivals, such as WOMAD, continue to take place in a variety of countries, including the UK.
Peace convoy
See also: Battle of the BeanfieldIn the UK during the 1980s the travellers' mobile homes—generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double-deckers)—moved in convoys. One group of travellers came to be known as the Peace Convoy after visits to Peace camps associated with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The movement had faced significant opposition from the British government and from mainstream media, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent the Stonehenge Free Festival, and the resultant Battle of the Beanfield in 1985—resulting in what was, according to the Guardian, one of the largest mass arrests of civilians since at least the Second World War, possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.
In 1986 and later years police again blocked travellers from "taking the Stones" on the Summer Solstice. This led Travelers to spend summers squatting by the hundreds on several sites adjacent to the A303 in Wiltshire.
Outside the UK
Following the crackdowns against aspects of New Age Traveller culture and the free festivals, some ceased travelling altogether and others headed to continental Europe to pursue continuance of the lifestyle.
A North American counterpart to the UK-based New Age Travellers and former free festivals, is the Rainbow Family which was formed around 1970 and which hosts annual Rainbow Gatherings.
Meanwhile, housetruckers in New Zealand have maintained an alternative, "hippie nomad" lifestyle.
References
- https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_ESP_171_0073--on-the-road-new-travellers-and-their.htm
- "New Age Travellers - a traveller lifestyle and subculture in Britain".
- Fox, Dan (3 April 2018). "24-Hour Party People: How Britain's New Age Traveler movement defined a zeitgeist". World Policy Journal. 35 (1): 3–9. doi:10.1215/07402775-6894684. ISSN 1936-0924. S2CID 158322983.
- ^ "New Travellers, Old Story" (PDF). The Children's Society. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- Ivakhiv, Adrian (2001). Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona. Indiana University Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-253-33899-9.
- https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/feb/22/features.magazine27 whilst other commentators see it as possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.
- Stuart Maconie (2014). The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records. Ebury Press. pp. 356–. ISBN 978-0-09-193380-7.
Films
- Pierre Carles, Volem rien foutre al païs, co-directed with Christophe Coello et Stéphane Goxe, 2006. A French documentary film about various ways of living on very low income, as many travellers do).
- Martin Parry http://www.swindonviewpoint.com/video/outsiders. Documentary on the Beanfield and trials and tribulations of the Peace Convoy/New Age Travellers.
- 23 Teknivals, directed by Zena Merton MA, 2006. A five-minute video montage of travellers' life on the road, free festivals and warehouse parties in Europe (Teknivals) and of the wake of a teenage English traveller, Sonny, in England that was attacked by riot police.
Further reading and external links
- O'Brien, Mark and Ashford, Chris. "'Tribal Groups' in Modern Britain: Legal Theory, Legal Practice and Human Rights" Contemporary Issues in Law Vol 6, Issue 2 180-206
- Gardner, Peter. "Medieval Brigands, Pictures in a Year of the Hippy Convoy" Published 1987 by Redcliffe, Bristol. ISBN 0-948265-02-7
- Colville, Fergus. Timeshift: New Age Travellers BBC Four, August 2005
- Lodge Alan, A gallery of New Age Traveller images, mostly from the 80s and 90s Retrieved 2008-11-04
- Mr. Sharkey, Gypsy Faire "Many of these images come courtesy of Chris Fay, previous editor and publisher of Roadhome NZ, a now-ceased publication for road folk."
- Staff, BBC 2003, Inside Out, BBC, 20 January 2003, "After being forced to camp illegally for years, Brighton Council are the first to introduce a legal site for New Age Travellers".
- Worthington, Andy (Jun 2005) The Battle of the Beanfield, Enabler Publications and Training Services, ISBN 0-9523316-6-7, ISBN 978-0-9523316-6-7
- Worthington, Andy (June 2004). Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion, Alternative Albion, ISBN 1-872883-76-1, ISBN 978-1-872883-76-2
- UK Hippy and Tribal Living counter-culture community websites.
- A Different Light Youthful travelers in contemporary America: An interview
- Zwissler, Laurel (2011). "Pagan Pilgrimage: New Religious Movements Research on Sacred Travel within Pagan and New Age Communities". Religion Compass. 5 (7). Wiley: 326–342. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00282.x. ISSN 1749-8171.
