#GRTHM26 Week Two

Part 2 of a 4 Part Research Blog Series by Gairloch Museum

For Gypsy Roma Traveller History month in 2021 we traced the long history of Travellers within the Gairloch area. This year we’re tracing two of the families we met then in more detail…

STEP Art Challenge 2026

Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) have announced their theme for Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month 2026 ‘Onwards with Hope’.

STEP invites you to respond to the theme and submit your artwork from June - August!

The Stranger’s Hand

Grab a cuppa, get cosy and enjoy our series of Scottish Travellers’ ghost stories, passed down orally, around the campfire, from generation to generation…

The Fixer

This article is part two of series of articles written by Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly, that examine the role eugenics played, or was planned to play, in the Tinker Experiments. A diversion from the main focus of the series, and longer than I had first anticipated, but nonetheless interesting, to me at least, on the character of the man, the fixer, who made Abel’s work in Scotland possible.