Primary Documents
This project has involved a lot of research and assistance from others.
I started with a report published by English Heritage in 2003 by Rodger J C Thomas:
Prisoner of War Camps (1939-1948) Report
Within my own research I took the above document and discovered that it had a number of errors and omission and greatly expanded on it and produced an equivalent document that details my site visit as well as providing links to the images I shot. As of July 2020 this document is now at Issue 5.10. A copy is provided below, however, it is to be noted that for various reasons the actually coordinate data has been omitted ta this time.
PoW Camp Details by M J Richards
UK National Archive
Thought the course of this project I have made repeated visits to the UK National Archives in Kew. The Archive is in itself a former PoW Site, in this case Camp 144 Russell Avenue.
During my various visits to the archive I made photographic copies of Inspection Reports and War Diaries. These may be viewed in parts within this website itself. In addition the entire documents as copied by myself can be found on my personal website using the like below:
Reference Information Held at systonimages
Map
In locating the various sites I produced a Google Map that shows the location of ALL the sites I have discovered thus far. This Google Map differs from those shown elsewhere on this site as it includes locations that I visited and did not locate a camp AND sites that I have yet to visit. This map needs to be viewed with a degree of caution in that in the a lot of cases the Hostels and Camp may be identified just by a Village or Town Name. This map should thus be used in conjunction with the PoW Camp Details document
Books, Articles and Essays
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Barthes Roland. Camera Lucida, Vintage Book London. 2000
Barthes Roland. Camera Lucida, Fortanna Press London, 1990 Sixth Impression
Choi-Fitzpatrick A. Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, And the State. Journal of International Affairs , FALL/WINTER 2014, Vol. 68, No. 1, Breaking
http://www.jstor.com/stable/24461704
Draper K L . Building for War: Examples of Temporary Structures Designed For Wartime Use In Britain (1939 – 1945). Paper Submitted on the 5th International Congress on Construction History
Finn C. Defiant Britain. Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. Vol 53, No 3 (May/June 2000), pp 42-49
http://www.jstor.com/stable/41779315
Gates T and Deegan A. Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland [Chapter Title: Monuments in the
Kippin J. Cold War Pastoral – Greenham Common. Design Reline Books. London. 2001
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http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt1cfr9d7.15
Moshenska G. The Archaeology of the 2nd World War – Uncovering Britain’s Wartime Heritage, Academia, 2012
Muir R. Landscape: a wasted legacy. Discipline of Geography, Environmental and Life Sciences, University College of Ripon and York St John. 20 January 1998.
http://www.jstor.com/stable/20003903
Renes J. Landscape Biographies [Chapter Title: Layered Landscapes A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research]. Amsterdam University Press. 2015
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt15r3x99.20
Sugden J. Drone Photography – Art and Technique. Crowood Press. Wiltshire. 2020
Thomas Rodger JC. Prisoner of War Camps (1939-1948) Report. English Heritage. 2003
Thomas Rodger JC. Civil Defence from the First World War to the Cold War. Historic England. 2016
Tilley C and Cameron-Daum K. Anthropology of Landscape – The Extraordinary in the Ordinary. UCL Press. 2017
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt1mtz542.7
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