ICG article on English 'concentration camps', 1929-1939
Oct 1 2008
I've just read the ICG's article on 'concentration camps' in England, 1929-1939, posted on libcom.
Can anybody point me to The Sunday Times (9/9/98) article this is supposedly based upon? I've tried searching for this at work using the Nexis newspaper database, with no success. I'm not necessarily questioning the veracity of the story, I just want to know more.
I can't find any discussion of this on the Interweb, either.
Oct 2 2008
#3
Quote:
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Brynley Heaven lives at Aslackby, near Bourne, and edits the Sleaford and district Civic Trust newsletter. He has chaired local authority planning and housing committees as an elected councillor in London and, more recently, cherishes his many years resident in the Beara peninsula, West Cork. He writes regularly on issues of interest in the Sleaford area with a particular concern for land management, planning, left wing movements and neglected topics.
Oddly, this guy was the target of an extensive Class War/local squatter campaign, I think in Hackney in the eighties. They put up posters everywhere reading "Brynley Heaven, go to Hell!" or something like that.
EDIT: apparently Class War activists actually beat him up as well...
Oct 2 2008
#4
Thanks Demo. I'll do some further research to see if I can find a source if/when I have time.
Oct 2 2008
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Oct 2 2008
#6
You've cracked it - thanks for this!
Oct 2 2008
#7
If any of you have time to put a footnote on that article linking to these sources, that'd be a very lovely thing. If you can't edit it for some reason let me know. Thanks for digging it up people!
Oct 2 2008
#8
Sounds like the Civilian Conservation Corps from the same period in the States. A voluntary but heavily militarized work force. Among many other projects the CCC built the Appalachian Trail. My dad was a clerk/typist in a CCC camp and enjoyed it. He said the military discipline was pretty slack, at least in his camp, although at another camp they didn't agree, it put some money in his pocket and kept him busy when there was nothing to do in the job market.
Yeah we would appreciate you looking into this. Someone else posted that into the library, and the ICG have written some pretty barmy stuff so be good to know if it was confirmed or not.