Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… 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 … nightly curfew, a small allowance, and limitations on their movements. For the parole town’s inhabitants, sharing their spaces, and occasionally their homes, with those whom they may have seen as the enemy must at times have felt challenging … dated 23rd February 1797. Renaud Morieux calls the parole town a ‘captivity zone’ where those paroled occupied a liminal space within the community where they were neither friend nor enemy. Parole, suggests Morieux, worked best when everyone …
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