Isle of Man Internment
Yvonne Cresswell, Curator of Social History at Manx National Heritage, provides a fascinating insight into this rich archival material relating to the British Government’s contentious internment in 1940 of so-called “enemy aliens” still held by Manx National Heritage on the Isle of Man.
Chaired by Dawn Waterman, Archives and Heritage Manager at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who talked about the new Hidden Treasures: Celebrating Jewish Archives in Britain project which she initiated.