Baxtale Archive
An independent multidisciplinary research archive documenting Romani histories, cultures, artistic production, and representation through print, recorded sound, and moving image.
Collections
Explore the archive through its three principal collections.
Bibliographic Collection
Books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, and printed documentation spanning historical, scholarly, literary, and visual perspectives.
Discographic Collection
Vinyl records, CDs and cassettes documenting Romani musical practices, performers, repertoires, and their wider cultural contexts.
Audiovisual Collection
Films, documentaries, and digital audiovisual works documenting Romani histories, cultural practices, experiences, and representations.
Not a Canon. A record.
Baxtale Archive preserves materials according to their documentary significance rather than their cultural prestige. Celebrated works coexist with obscure, vernacular, commercial, difficult, and forgotten materials.
The archive approaches these materials as evidence: objects to be preserved, contextualised, compared, and questioned.
Explore the Archive
Browse the catalog across collections, search for specific subjects, people, places, and periods, and discover individual records and the connections between them.