| LC control no. | n 2021040848 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) |
| Variant(s) | Artists' Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) Barbed Wire University (Douglas, Isle of Man) Hutchinson Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) P Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) |
| Beginning date | 1940-07-13 |
| Ending date | 1945-03 |
| Found in | Barbed Wire University, 2021: title page (Barbed Wire University) CIP galley (enemy aliens were placed under armed guard on an island in the Irish Sea; "Hutchinson Internment Camp;" History would come to know it, with good reason, as "the artists' camp," or the "Barbed Wire University" first intake on July 13, 1940; Hutchinson Camp ; "P Camp"--the Home Office designation for Hutchinson; By June, 1941, Hutchinson's heyday of the Barbed Wire University, the Artists' CafeĢ, and the classical concerts on the lawn was largely at an end due to the departure of so many luminaries; The camp continued to host a dwindling number of internees thereafter, and even POWs briefly toward the very end of the war) AJR Refugee Voices website, viewed July 26, 2021: isle-of-man-camps/Hutchinson (Hutchinson, or 'P camp' opened, officially, on 13th July 1940; Situated behind barbed wire, in a square of forty-five requisitioned boarding houses that overlooked the Irish Sea, it was one of eleven internment camps situated on the Isle of Man, housing German, Austrian and Italian passport holders; Hutchinson, with a peculiarly dense population of writers and poets, painters and sculptors (notable artists interned at Hutchinson included Kurt Schwitters, Hellmuth Weissenborn, Paul Hamann and Eric Kahn) became known, simply, as "the Artists' Camp"; The camp became a hub of creative endeavour, with a daily program of lectures, live music performances, poetry readings, and English lessons; As the British government expanded the categories under which internees could apply for release, by the beginning of 1942, most of the 'innocents' had walked free; Thereafter the camp's intake changed as Hutchinson filled with Prisoners of War and the rich cultural life that had defined the camp's early months drained away; The last remaining 228 inmates left the camp in March 1945, and Hutchinson's houses returned, finally, to their landladies) |
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