ABSTRACT
Research on British internment policy and anti-German hostility represents a growing area of study. A considerable amount of attention has been given to the anti-German riots which broke out across Britain in May 1915 and have been linked to reactions to the sinking of the passenger liner, the Lusitania, by a German submarine. Restrictions on the freedom of ‘enemy aliens’ were tightened dramatically in the wake of these riots, and historians such as Panikos Panayi, Nicoletta Gullace, Ben Braber, and Catriona M. MacDonald have used these incidents to discuss the relationship between press, public opinion and policy-making.5 Anti-alien policies have been the subject of research by J. C. Bird and Panayi; and the social history of life within internment camps has been addressed by historians such as Yvonne Cresswell, focusing on the Isle of Man internment camps, and Stefan Manz, researching those in Scotland. Panayi has now also published a nationwide perspective on internment.6
