Alien Internment in Britain During the Twentieth Century: An Introduction I: PRECEDENTS An Alien Concept? The Continuity of Anti-Alienism in British Society before 1940; An Intolerant Act by an Intolerant Society: The Internment of Germans in Britain During the First World War II: THE BRITISH STATE AND INTERNMENT Clubland, Cricket Tests and Alien Internment, 1939-40; The State, Internment and Public Criticism in the Second World War; The British Government and the Internment of Italians III: THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERNMENT Women's Experience of Internment; The Impact of the Second World War on the British Italian Community; Visual Art Behind the Wire; Conclusion and Epilogue