1 David Cesarani, 'Camps de la mort, camps de concentration et camps d'internement
dans la mémoire collective britannique', in Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, no: 54,
1997, p. 16.
2 A.W. Brian Simpson, In The Highest Degree Odious; detention without trial in wartime
Britain, (Oxford University Press, 1992), pp.70-94. Richard Thurlow, 'The Evolution of
the Mythical British Fifth Column, 1939-46', Twentieth Century British History, vol. 10,
no: 4, 1999, pp.481-484.
3 Thurlow, ibid., pp. 487-9.
4 Graham Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black; Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection
of British Fascism after 1945, (I.B. Taurus, 2007), pp. 9-28.
5 Stein Ugelvik Larsen, 'Charisma from below? The Quisling Case in Norway',
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 7, no: 2, 2006, pp. 235-244.
6 The Mosleyite group, 'Friends of Oswald Mosley', have compiled a list of interned BU
members. The list was originally compiled by John Warburton, and has been updated
since Mr Warburton's death by Jeffrey Wallder, who has noted that 'the total numbers of
British Union members known to have been detained under Defence Regulation 18b [is]
1,055. This includes 982 "definitely BU" and 73 "probably" BU'; The Defence Regulation
18B. British Union Detainees List; Second Addition to the Second Issue, London, 2007,
p.2.
7 All the quotations from R.R. 'Dick' Bellamy are taken from the recorded interview with
the author made on 4th June 1985.
8 Macklin, op cit, p.19.
9 This MS is in the possession of the author. There were, however, other copies made at
the time. One of these is held in the special collections of Sheffield University Library.
10 Watts MS.
11 Thurlow, op cit, p.490.
12 Mason provided the author with an extensive written account of his escapades during
internment, which, in Mason's case, lasted until 15th November, 1943.
13 Taken from the manuscript account by Arthur Mason, received by the author on 12th
September, 1986. All further quotations are from the same MS.
14 See Robert Mackay, '"An Abominable Precedent": the BBC's Ban on Pacifists in the
Second World War, Contemporary British History, vol. 20, no: 4, December 2006, pp.
491-510.