Romany Gypsies started to live in caravans, which they call vardoes, in the 1850s. Before this they travelled by horse or foot and camped in tents made from hazel rods covered with tarpaulin.

A row is growing over a Romany Gypsy family ... The Sykes family already have seven caravans at the site. The family has now applied for consent to set up four pitches, each with a static caravan ...

Roma, titled after a district in Mexico City ... for the American media’s refusal to call out the Central American “caravan” for the invasion that it really is. Cuaron wastes screen time ...