Mark T. Baillie

Nov 26, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Mark T. Baillie

ABOUT THIS BOOK PUBLISHER: Tippermuir Books ISBN: 9781913836375 RRP: £9.99 PAGES: 240 PUBLICATION DATE: July 1, 2024 By Mark Baillie Set in 1983, Salvage is a gripping and heartbreaking missing person mystery, exploring family dynamics, identity and the tragic history of Scotland’s Gypsy-Travellers. Scotland, 1929. Without warning or explanation, council officials descend on a Traveller campsite and brutally remove a young girl. It is the last her family sees of her. Decades later, Nash...

Aug 22, 2024 | travellerstimes.org.uk | Mark T. Baillie

Mark Baillie explains how his novel 'Salvage' delves into a tragic but little-known aspect of Gypsy-Traveller history In spring 2021, I had a much-anticipated phone call with the researcher and genealogist Robert Dawson. I own a number of Dawson’s books on the history of Gypsy-Travellers in Britain and had contacted him to ask if I could speak to him about the novel I was writing. Unfortunately, the conversation didn’t go as hoped.

May 30, 2024 | northernirelandworld.com | Mark T. Baillie

Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowOn 23 May, the Department for Communities released the latest edition of its Housing Bulletin for January to March 2024. The statistics record another rise in the number of households on the social housing waiting list since the publication of the last bulletin in February. On 31 March 2024, there were 47,312 households on the social housing waiting list with 75% experiencing housing stress.

May 29, 2024 | travellerstimes.org.uk | Mark T. Baillie

Mark Baillie writes about a historic photo of the aftermath of a fair in Kelso, taken in 1886, that his family has had in its possession 'for as long as he can remember.' Yet the photograph reveals an enduring mystery... This photo of the morning after the Kelso St James Fair in Scotland has been in my family as long as I can remember... writes Mark Baillie.

Feb 17, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anne-Laure Boulesteix |Mark T. Baillie |Dominic Edelmann |Leonhard Held

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