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Podcast Explores Isle of Man Internment Camp
Looking at the UK’s National Archives, this week’s episode looks at the experiences of people, particularly women and children, who were placed into the Rushen Camp here on the island.
History podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, hosted by Al Murray and historian James Holland has delved into the island’s role in internment during the Second World War.
Since launching in 2020, the podcast has gone on to grow a global following and even organises its own festival, We Have Ways Fest.
Looking at the UK’s National Archives, this week’s episode looks at the experiences of people, particularly women and children, who were placed into the Rushen Camp here on the island.
As well as exploring how the British government decided who to intern on the island, the episodes explores camp currency, the life of islanders and their ‘guests’ who found themselves living in the camp and how people came to be released.
The Rushen Internment Camp was opened on May 29 1940 and housed 3,000 women and children behind barbed wire across Port Erin and Port St Mary. It was one of several camps on the island, with others in Douglas, Ramsey and Peel.
We’re @UkNatArchives today on the @WeHaveWaysPod as @almurray look at the experiences of ‘enemy aliens’ here in the UK and particularly the bizarre Rushen Camp for women & children on the Isle of Man. Top new exhibition on at Kew, by the way. pic.twitter.com/8YiEnh8fmk
— James Holland (@James1940) February 22, 2024
