British Internment and the Internment of Britons

Gilly Carr is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of seven monographs including Victims of Nazism in the Channel Islands: A Legitimate Heritage? (2019) and is currently writing A Materiality of Internment about the creativity produced in internment camps in Germany in WWII.Rachel Pistol is a digital historian at King’s College London, UK, where she works on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and is the National Coordinator of EHRI-UK. She has published widely on refugees and Second World War internment including Internment during the Second World War (2017) and is the co-editor, along with Larissa Allwork, of The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public (2019).

[Carr] and Pistol make a valuable contribution to studies of civilian internment in the Second World War for both scholars and tertiary students, illuminating lesser recognized camps and highlighting forced mobilities within the internment system. Rather than local or national relevance alone, they rightly place the camps into a larger transnational narrative of civilian incarceration during war.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: British Internment and the Internment of Britons 1939-1945: Camps, History and Heritage, Rachel Pistol and Gilly CarrSection 1 – British Camps: Continentals interned in Britain1. Early internment camps in the UK: A forgotten history and heritage, Rachel Pistol, King’s College London2. ‘Once again to live their bit of private life, free from camping like gipsies’: the case of a refugee camp in the Garden of England, Clare Ungerson, University of Southampton, UK3. Legacy and Heritage of the Arandora Star Tragedy in Britain and Italy: A Transnational Perspective on Commemoration, Terri Colpi, University of St Andrews, UK4. Huyton - A Transit Camp near Liverpool, Jennifer Taylor, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, University of London, UK5. Internment and its legacy: a multi-generational case-study, Rob David, Independent Researcher6. Rushen Camp, Isle Of Man, for women and children: ‘Treat them with kindness’, Rushen Heritage Action TeamSection 2 – Continental Camps: Britons interned on the Continent7. Monopoly boards, pianos and bodies hanging on the wire: Memories of the British experiences of the French transit camp of Compiègne, Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge, UK8. P.G. Wodehouse and the Men of Tost, Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, UK9. The Golden Cage: The Orphan Story of British Women and Internment in Vittel, Ayshka Sené, Nottingham Trent University, UK10. The internment of British enemy aliens in Fascist internment camps: the case study of ‘Anglo-Maltesi’, Pierluigi Bolioli, University of Pisa, ItalySection 3 – Camps in the British Dominions: Continentals interned by the British abroad11. Memories of Atlit – Jewish refugees interned in the detention camp Atlit near Haifa 1940/41, Verena Buser, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany12. “Dehra Dun, we hope to leave you soon!”: The operation, experiences and legacy of the Dehra Dun Central Internment Camp in British India, 1939–present, Joseph Cronin, Queen Mary, University of London, UK13. Civilian internment in the British Raj: camps and their legacy c. 1939-62, Alan Malpass, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK14. They were brought to Australia from around the World… The internment of Enemy Aliens in World War II at Tatura Camps 1-4, Alan Morgenroth, Independent Researcher15. 75 Years of Canadian WWII Internment Camp Site Heritage: A case study of Camp B-70 in New Brunswick, Todd Caissie, Rutgers University, USAIndex