Gypsy Lore Society: bibliography
"... the essential thing is not that the [Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society] should be kept running by hook or by crook, but that it should be excellent while it lasts".
John Sampson, cited in JGLS 1932 (11) p.12.
Wagtail emblem of the Gypsy Lore Society
For obituaries of GLS members, see the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (continued by Romani Studies).
Sources for the history of the Gypsy Lore Society
- Deborah Nord (2006) Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930.
ch.5 "The Last Romance": Scholarship and Nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society. - Miranda van de Heijning (2002) Two societies: on Rais, Rawnies and the Gypsy Lore Society, 1888-1938. Doctoral Thesis, University of Nijmegen.
- Ken Lee (2000) 'Orientalism and Gypsylorism' in Social Analysis 44 (2), pp 129-156.
- Anthony Sampson (1997) The Scholar Gypsy: the quest for a family secret.
[controversial biography of John Sampson by his grandson] - Angus Fraser (1990) 'A rum lot' in Matt T. Salo (ed.) 100 years of Gypsy studies pp2-14.
- David Nemeth (1986) 'To preserve what might otherwise perish': the JGLS, Gypsy studies, and a new challenge in: Joanne Grumet (ed.) Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings pp5-16.
- F.G. Ackerley (1938) 'Longarum haec meta viarum 1888-1938' in Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (3rd series) 17 (3), pp1-11 [special jubilee issue].
- R.A. Scott Macfie (July 1909) GLS.A29.470 [letter to Amelia Goddard, discussing the motto and emblem of the GLS].