United Kingdom

Content about events and struggles in what is now the United Kingdom.

The colonial development of concentration camps

The practice of concentrating civilians in guarded camps or centres, specifically as part of a counter-guerrilla military strategy during wartime…

African Anglo-Boer War prisoners of war in St Helena

Black concentration camps during the second Anglo-Boer war

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…

Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…

Role of Black people in the South African War

A short article from South African History Online about the role of black soldiers and workers in the second Boer war.

Boer concentration camp

19 June 1901: The South African concentration camps

Emily Hobhouse reports from inside the internment centres where Boer women and children face squalor and starvation (1901).

Diyatalawa camp, Ceylon

POW camps in Ceylon during the Boer war

Over 5,000 Boers were interned in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the Boer War. The Ceylon camps were the second set of overseas POW camps after those…

POW camps in Bermuda during the Boer War

Contemporary newspaper article detailing the POW camps set up by the British for Boer prisoners during the Anglo-Boer war.

Boer prisoners camp Bhimtal

Boer POW camps in India

Short article on the Boer prisoner of war camps set up in India during the Boer War.

Deadwood Camp, St. Helena

POW camps at St. Helena during the Boer war

During the Boer war, Boer women and children, and black African men, women and children were kept in two racially segregated networks of…

A crowd defends Kennistoun House, 1960

Rent strike: St Pancras 1960

A detailed history and analysis of the militant St Pancras rent strike of 1960 against council rent increases written in 1972.

Freedom 1972

From Sparrowsnest Archive http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/PAR0335.pdf

School Dinner Discipline: a little bit of solidarity can go a long way

A dinner lady came to Brighton SolFed when there was nowhere left to go. At the time, they faced a…