This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire. The book brings together a range of interdisciplinary specialists including archaeologists, historians, and heritage practitioners to give a full overview of the topic of internment internationally.
Very little has been written about the experience of interned Britons on the continent during the Second World War compared with continentals interned in Britain. Even fewer accounts exist of the regime in British Dominions where British guards presided over the camps. This collection is the first to bring together the British experiences, as the common theme, in one study. The new research presented here also offers updated statistics for the camps whilst considering the period between 1945 to the present day through related site heritage issues.
Author(s): Gilly Carr; Rachel Pistol (editors)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 300
City: London
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British internment and the internment of Britons: An introduction
Part One British Camps: Continentals Interned in Britain
1 Early internment camps in the United Kingdom: A forgotten history and heritage (Rachel Pistol)
2 ‘Once again to live their bit of private life, free from camping like gipsies’: The case of a refugee camp in the Garden of E
3 Legacy and heritage of the Arandora Star tragedy in Britain and Italy: A transnational perspective (Terri Colpi)
4 Huyton: A transit camp near Liverpool (Jennifer Taylor)
5 Written out of history: The impact of Sefton Camp’s post-war invisibility on memory and belonging (Rob David)
6 Rushen Camp, Isle of Man – Camp W (women and children), Camp Y (married), ‘Treat them with kindness’1 (Rushen Herita
Part Two Continental Camps: Britons Interned on the Continent
7 An autograph book, a piano and a body hanging on the wire: British memories of the French transit and internment camp of Roya
8 P. G. Wodehouse and the men of Tost (Christine Berberich)
9 The Golden Cage: The orphan story of British women and internment in Vittel (Ayshka Sené)
10 The internment of British enemy aliens in Fascist internment camps: The case study of Anglo-Maltesi (Pierluigi Bolioli
Part Three Camps in the British Dominions: Continentals interned by the British abroad
11 In detention: Memories of Jewish refugees interned in Atlit near Haifa (Verena Buser)
12 The operation, experiences and legacy of the Prem Nagar Central Internment Camp at Dehra Dun in British India, 1939–present
13 Civilian internment in the Raj: Central and family internment camps c.1939–43 (Alan Malpass)
14 The British sent them to Australia from around the World: The internment of enemy aliens in the Second World War at Tatura C
15 Grass growing is like forgetting: A case study of the heritage of the Second World War–internment camp B-70 New Brunswick, C
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