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New Age travellers

Category of people in the UK living alternative lifestyles

Category of people in the UK living alternative lifestyles

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New Age Travellers (synonymous with and otherwise known as New Travellers) are people located primarily in the United Kingdom generally espousing New Age beliefs with hippie or Bohemian culture of the 1960s. New Age Travellers used to travel between free music festivals and fairs prior to a crackdown in the 1990s. New Traveller also refers to those who are not traditionally of an ethnic nomadic group but who have chosen to pursue a nomadic lifestyle.

A New Traveller's transport and home may consist of living in a van, vardo, lorry, bus, car or caravan converted into a mobile home while also making use of an improvised bender tent, tipi or yurt. Some New Travellers and New Nomads may stay in guest bedrooms of hosts, or pay for inexpensive affordable lodgings while living in different locations around the world as part of their New Traveller lifestyle.

"New Age" travellers largely originated in 1980s and early 1990s Britain, when they were briefly known pejoratively 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." However, New Travellers can come from any walk of life and socio-economic background.

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 Irish Travellers, Romani groups and others.

Peace convoy

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 Peace camps associated with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). possibly one of the biggest in English legal history.

Castlemorton Common Festival

The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills between 22 and 29 May 1992. The media interest and controversy surrounding the festival, and concerns as to the way it was policed, inspired the legislation that would eventually become the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

References

References

  1. (18 December 2017). "On the road: New Travellers and their radical need for space". Espaces et Sociétés.
  2. "Example Definitions of Gypsies and Travellers in the UK".
  3. "New Age Travellers - a traveller lifestyle and subculture in Britain".
  4. (3 April 2018). "24-Hour Party People: How Britain's New Age Traveler movement defined a zeitgeist". World Policy Journal.
  5. "New Travellers, Old Story". The Children's Society.
  6. (2001). "Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona". Indiana University Press.
  7. (2004-02-22). "What happened next?".
  8. Stuart Maconie. (2014). "The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records". Ebury Press.
  9. Lynskey, Dorian. (15 June 2011). "Castlemorton triggers the rave crackdown". The Guardian.
  10. Chester, Jerry. (28 May 2017). "Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law". BBC News.
  11. Barton, Tom. (14 May 2022). "A Succession of Repetitive Beats".
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