… created theatre productions and started Masonic lodges with their British hosts. They became a familiar presence in many communities across Britain and the parole town became a social space and contact point between British communities and their paroled ‘guests’. Places > Cities Keywords Correspondence Europe France Residences Travel War … could vary enormously. Larger towns like Reading in Berkshire could accommodate hundreds of prisoners whilst smaller communities like Hambledon in Hampshire were able to accommodate much fewer numbers. 1 Life on parole in these …
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… of War in Britain 1793-1815 (Stroud: The History Press, 2008). Crimmin, Patricia K., ‘Prisoners of war and British port communities, 1793–1815’, The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord (n° 6, 1996), p. 17–27. Daly, Gavin, ‘Napoleon’s lost … of War in Britain 1793-1815 (Stroud: The History Press, 2008). Crimmin, Patricia K., ‘Prisoners of war and British port communities, 1793–1815’, The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord (n° 6, 1996), p. 17–27. Daly, Gavin, ‘Napoleon’s lost …
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… the peasant his lonely hut! For I had now almost lost the idea of social happiness. My disturbed imagination divided the communities of men but into two classes, the oppressor and the oppressed; and peace seemed only to exist with solitude’ …