Metadata: Alexandra Palace Concert Society of German internees
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Postal address:
- 40 Northampton RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomEC1R 0HBFax: +44 (0) 20 7833 9136
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7332 3820
- Reference number:
- ACC/0803
- Title:
- Alexandra Palace Concert Society of German internees
- Title (official language):
- Alexandra Palace Concert Society of German internees
- Date(s):
- 1915/1916
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.15 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- Records of the Alexandra Palace Concert Society of German Internees, including concert programmes, retrospect of the Concert Society including names of musicians, lists and analysis of works performed, and watercolour portrait by a prisoner.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- On the outbreak of war with Germany in 1914, some 50,000 Germans, Austrians, Hungarians and Turks living in Britain were arrested and detained in internment camps for 'male enemy aliens of military age'. Entertainments venue Alexandra Palace in North London was converted into a camp housing around 3,000 men, sleeping in rows in the Great Hall. The inmates formed various clubs including a football club, gardening society and amateur theatrical society as well as the concert society.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Music
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for general access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- London Metropolitan Archives
