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Please note that this book has also been published as Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two. There is no difference between the content of the two books. Maggie Smith-Bendell was born on the edge of a pea field near Bridgwater in Somerset in 1941. She and her family are Romani Gypsies and as she grew up Maggie learned the old crafts and customs of the Gypsies' traditional way of life. Her family travelled the length and breadth of the countryside, eking a living from the woods and hedgerows, catching rabbits, pheasants and wild duck. They did all manner of fieldwork for farmers including picking peas, beans and hops - and as soon as Maggie was old enough she contributed to the family's labour. Ever since they arrived in Europe centuries ago, the Gypsies have been persecuted for their outsider status, but the last sixty years or so have perhaps seen the greatest threats to their culture, to the extent that their traditional way of life is in danger of disappearing altogether: changes in the law, changes in agriculture, many things have undermined the Gypsies' freedom to live as they wish. In this wonderful memoir, full of the language and lore of the Gypsies, Maggie Smith-Bendell gives us a true insight into a way of life that has more or less vanished: driven by the seasons, with an extraordinary closeness to nature, she and her family faced numerous hardships including the deaths of beloved family members. As well as telling the story of her family's ups and downs in the course of their yearly journeys to the pea-fields of Somerset and the hop-gardens of Herefordshire, Maggie recounts her own journey to become a prominent campaigner for Gypsy rights. An autobiography told straight from the heart, "Our Forgotten Years" is both moving and inspiring.
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Maggie Smith-Bendell describes herself as privileged to be born in the era of the wagon and horse to good old-fashioned Romani Gypsy parentsA". She is immensely proud of her heritage and believes it was her early life that made her what she is today, an activist for my race of Gypsy peopleA". She runs an advisory service for Gypsies and Travellers based in the South-West of England and campaigns tirelessly for the rights of Gypsies to live peacefully in accordance with their culture.
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