Internment During the Great War

The Internment Research Centre (IRC) in Hawick is open to anyone interested in past and present internment throughout the world. Its resources range from local to global and offer fascinating insights into the home front experience, military history, minorities in wartime and family history. Stobs Camp was an internment camp for civilian and military Prisoners of War during the First World War.

This webpage includes the following resources for educators:

• Minorities on the Homefront ‘Enemy Alien’ internment in The British Empire 1914-1919
• Minorities and Internment in South Africa during the Great War 1914-1919
• An online exhibition, Behind the Wire: Civilian Internment in the British Empire, 1914-1919