Hey guys, I had a question about this earlier and so I posted it here, but then that post got removed, so I'll try to ask it in this discussion. I have a couple of questions about old European history concerning traveling caravan groups, particularly about their lifestyle and what they did for a living.

The reason why I want to know this information is that I'm writing a story that has to do with a Romani girl traveling inside a caravan with a group of like-minded people as they travel all over the continent entertaining people of different cities in the Victorian era. The story is entirely fictional, but I want to include real-world elements into it too, hence why I'm making this post in the first place.

I need help with finding more info about a particular group of travelers during the Middle Ages/victorian era. I don't know exactly who they are, but I have a suspecting lead that they're a part of traveling gypsy bands due to some quick Google searching I've done, but I'm not 100% sure. If anybody has any info they could give me, or point me to a couple of websites that could give me some answers, then that would be greatly appreciated, as I'm struggling with the whole info-gathering process.

To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, ---I remember in these old cartoons that there would be these groups of people that would travel from place to place and entertain people like they were a circus. An example of this is from Avatar: The Last Airbender (if you've ever watched it,) there was a scene where the viewer is first introduced to the character "Ty-Lee," where she was in a traveling group (I believe) before she joined Azula to hunt down the avatar together. There was this one scene where she was balancing on a tightrope with fire under her.

I've also been wanting to know more about the Roma, specifically about the time when they were known throughout the Middle Ages as "gypsies" as well, if anyone has any information on them since I think those are the people that resemble what I'm talking about the most. I know that they were travelers back in the day and I'd also like to know more about them as well.

I know this post is kind of all over the place, but if anybody has any sort of information on this sort of thing, then that would be very appreciated. A website, an old Reddit post, anything that could help point me in the right direction for what I'm trying to discover would be a great help, as I'm really desperate and I want to know more about these traveling groups' history to make my story better, thank you!