Detailed Archive List
NEWSPAPERS
Hornsey Journal 1914
Hornsey Journal 1915
Hornsey Journal 1917
Bowes Park Weekly News 1914 - 1922
Wood Green Herald 1914 to 1922
Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald 1914 to 1922
Bruce Castle Alexandra Palace collection
IWM Notes - Women's Work Collection
BEL 1/2:The Belgian Refugees
Reprinted from The “Times history of war”
MEMOIRS
Imperial War Museum
BEL 6 118/2
Account of the Journey from Antwerp to Hull of the Sisters of the Institut Terninck in October
1914
BEL 6 118/2
Account of the Journey from Antwerp to Hull of the Sisters of the Institut Terninck in October
1914
George Kenner 1888 – 1971
German Historical Institute
Civillian Internment in Britain During the First World War
Book One: The Worlds History is the World’s Judgement A Description of my long Internment
during the Great War
British Library
Alexandra Palace Internment Camp in the First World War 1914-1918; Rudolf Rocker
Imperial War Museum
Dual Nationality, by Karl Engler
Reference No. General Collection: Documents 1644
BEL 2 2/15
Extracts from Miss Bidwell’s Diary at the Rink
‘Sketches of a German Interned Civillian Prisoner in England (1914-1919)’, by George Kenner
Reference No: Art IWM ARCH 27
Private papers of Karl Engler
'ACADEMIC' WORKS
German Historical Institute
The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain; ed. Cesarani, David and Kushner,
Tony; 2 chapters:
'
An Alien Concept? The Continuity of Anti-Alienism in British Society before 1940; David
Cesarani; Part IV Anti-Alienism during the First World War
An Intolerant Act by an Intolerant Society: The Internment of Germans in Britain during the
First World War; Panikos Panayi
'Totally Un-English'? Britain's Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars; ed. Dove,
Richard; 2 chapters:
A Marginalized Subject? The Historiography of Enemy Alien Internment in Britain; Panikos
Panayi
Prisoner's of Britain: German Civilian, Military and Naval Internees during the First World War;
Panikos Panayi
‘Control of Enemy Aliens in Great Britain 1914-1918’, JC Bird (1986)
British Library
Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War - Britain, France and Germany
1914-1920; Jones, Heather; (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
'German minorities in World War I: A Comparative Study of Britain and the USA in Ethnic and
Racial Studies; Ellis, Mark and Panayi, Panikos
'Civilian Internment and Civilian Internees in Europe, 1914-1920 in Immigrants and Minorities;
Stibbe, Matthew
Imperial War Museum
BEL 2/1/13
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts No.3,253 Vol. LXIII, Friday, March 26, 1915
Lancet
The Lancet, Oct. 3rd 1914, vol. 184, pp 867-868
The Lancet,Oct 2nd 1916, vol. 187, no. 4853 pp 919-920
Alexandra Palace A Hidden History Janet Harris
"Alexandra Park & Palace, A History" by Ron Carrington
LETTERS/POSTCARDS: OFFICIAL
Bruce Castle
10.D/1/152 Documents relating to rating 1909-17
Imperial War Museum
BEL 1/22
Letter to the Secretary of the Local Government Board
And appendix: BEL 1/23
LETTERS/POSTCARDS: PERSONAL
Imperial War Museum
Alexandra Palace 13. II. 17
Private Papers of Benjamin Cseh
Reference No: General Collection: Documents 15168
Personal paper Rudolph Sauter
Private papers of Richard Schramm
Private papers of Benjamin Cseh
OFFICIAL DOCS (OTHER THAN LETTERS, e.g. minutes)
OFFICIAL VISITS AND COMPLAINTS
National Archives
FO383/33/67335 -US Embassy Report, 26th May 1915
Report of Prisoners’ of War Camp at Alexandra Palace, visited on May 21st 1915
FO383/164/181944 - Official complaint by Max Cogho - July 1916
FO383/164/226983 - US Embassy Report 10th November 1916
Internment Camp at Alexandra Palace report by Mr Francis E Brantingham
FO383/469/28772 - report by Swedish official, 7th Jan 1918 copy of report by Captain
Vnander on visit of inspection to Alexandra Palace and Dartford and Fulham Hospitals
FO383/432 - Visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the UK
FO383/432 - Visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the UK
PERMITS FOR VISITS AND RELEASE REQUESTS
National Archives
FO383/192/101399 - Johannes Boeder, German subject interned at Alexandra Palace,
London, authority given in error for his telegram to be sent to his wife
FO383/115 - Austria-Hungarian prisoners: request for release of individuals from detention,
including: Austrians and Hungarians arrested before the outbreak of war and interned at
Alexandra Palace, London. (1916)
FO383/362/12174- Austria-Hungary Prisoners, repatriation: Adolf Kirchner, Austrian subject
held at Alexandra Palace Camp, London. Question of his repatriation as being an ordained
minister of religion
Imperial War Museum
Document 1788: Permit to visit a Prisoner of War at Alexandra Palace
Permit to Visit a Prisoner of War at Alexandra Palace, August 1917
Documents.1788
MINUTES/REPORTS OF MEETINGS AND WORKINGS OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES
(including Annual Reports)
Bruce Castle
Alexandra Palace Trustees Annual Meetings, signed minutes: 1903-1963
Reference No: ldbcm:a/10.D/1/2
Executive Committee and Sub Committee Meetings, signed minutes: May 1913-May
1922Reference No: ldbcm:a/10.D/1/9
Alexandra Palace Trustees Annual Meetings, signed minutes: 1903-1963
Reference No: ldbcm:a/10.D/1/2
Executive Committee and Sub Committee Meetings, signed minutes: May 1913-May 1922
Reference No: ldbcm:a/10.D/1/9
London Metropolitan Archive
Minute book from collection War Refugees Committee (1914 Aug- Sept)
Imperial War Museum
BEL 6 40/6 – Cambridge Homes for Belgian Refugees
BEL 6 40/7 – Hügel Homes for Belgian Refugees Committee
BEL 6 45/3 mReception of the Belgian Refugees By Liverpool and the Associated
Committees and Hosteses
BEL 6 179/3
Northwood and Eastcte Belgian Refugees Committee Report, Balance Sheets and List
Subscribers
1915
BEL 2/1/11 War Refugees Committee: Homes for Refugees. Scheme for Utilization of Flats
BEL 2 1/17 The War Refugees Committee
BEL 2 4/4 Work with the War Refugee Committee, St. George’s Road
BEL 1/16 Report of the Departmental Committee to consider the reception and employment
of the Belgian refugees
BEL 1/9 and BEL 1/10 Annual Reports of the Local Government Board
MISCELLANEOUS
Imperial War Museum
BEL Pamphlet 3 Report on the work undertaken by the British Government in the Reception
and Care of the Belgian Refugees.
BEL 2 2/24 Miscellaneous Letters about the General Work – Belgian Refugees
BEL 4/9: Reports on individual cases; BEL 4/11, BEL 4/13 & BEL 4/17: similar
BEL 1/2 The Belgian Refugees
Bruce Castle
10.D/1/138: Bye laws and correspondence relating 1901-29
ARTS AND MUSIC
London Metropolitan Archives
Alexandra Palace Concert Society of German Internee
Portrait (watercolour) of baby’s head by A. Muro POW, 1916
BEL 2 2/24
Miscellaneous Letters about the General Work – Belgian Refugees
BEL 4/9: Reports on individual cases; BEL 4/11, BEL 4/13 & BEL 4/17: similar
BEL 1/2 The Belgian Refugees
Imperial War Museum
List of 4 paintings/sketches by S.Lauter
Artwork of George Kenner
PHOTOGRAPHS, PLANS AND FILMS
National Archives
Alexandra Palace - Ground Plan 1918
Alexandra Palace - Ground Plan 1915
Imperial War Museum
List of 17 photographs Central Prisoners of War Committee Collection and Air Ministry
Collection
Pathe Old Negative Collection 29 [Main Title] (Date: 1915);NPU 29;(Film)
Accommodation for Belgian Refugees in Britain, 1914-1918, Photograph
HU 88811
Bruce Castle
Album: Belgian refugees at Alexandra Palace (Davey & Hackney Photographers)
"German Prisoners in Great Britain" Published by Tillotson and Sons Ltd, Bolton and London,
England.
"Our Belgian guest at the Alexandra Palace"
"Safe at last: shipwrecked refugees find a home in London"
ARTEFACTS
Imperial War Museum
Decorated Animal Bone
Inscribed Glass tumblers
Books from the Intern Library at Alexandra Palace
Various official or mementos relating to George Kenner