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Tuesday 27 March 2012

Conchie coke.- rough digital draft.

Ties in with my Billy Butlins work that i will be posting later.  Billy Butlins was a holiday camp entrepreneur  who , during the second world war profited from internment camps in England. German citizens and people with German heritage were rounded up at gun point and held in camps. Facilities were limited and suicide was common as family's were not held together, were given no legal redress and no idea how long they were to be held. Conchie is a slang term for conscientious objectors, people who refused to fight based on morality. There is an interesting history associated with conscientious objectors, which i shall investigate on this post.
Butlins and English Holiday Camps.-edit `5/6/13
Holiday camps in England have a unique history, so it was interesting to note the first Butlins camp to be built outside mainland Britain in Ireland faced opposition. The Catholic Church who hold so much political and social power in Ireland thought it would encourage licentiousnes, until the company paid a 'tithe' (read bribe) by building a church for them.

http://www.butlinsmemories.com/mosney/

The website is fairly edifying , it is interesting to note the British armed forced kept control of some of the holiday camps for years after the war using them as training camps, ones situated near the sea were ideal for the navy. In the late 1930's the British Armed Forced began a process of taking over holiday camps, since they were ideally situated for combat training and had facilities ready made for housing of troops. The camps after the war were given back to be used as the company saw fit.


Those that were not used for allocation of service members were used as internment camps for British citizens with German heritage and German born citizens.



This is a theme i will be developing, i hope to make a painting on this.-work in edit-sorry.

10 comments:

  1. If only a couple million more refused to fight, maybe those big wig idiots that start it would have to do their own dirty work. Never knew any of that.

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    1. Thnka Pat, i will post more info, im starting on the painting this weekend.

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  2. That is both sad and interesting. That would be nice if you made a painting on it so people could learn about it and it will be remembered.

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    1. I will be working on this painting this weekend. Thanks for commenting Jax. It is sad, but people are starting to remember internment camps. History is written by the victor sadly, and in this case it means whoever has an interest in re writing the past.

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  3. interesting. it seems like a good subject to explore.
    hope to see the painting ?

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    1. Thanks Jaya, im working on this weekend.I am interested in history, and how most people subscribe to a politicized version of events. They don't self educate, which leaves people open to massive manipulation.

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  4. so i learned something new today - i'm a conchie!

    i was called something similar in a bar once, but that's another story all together.

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    1. Ha, yeah, iv'e been called that a few times too. Thanks for commenting. New art will be up soon.

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  5. It's funny how the perspective of history changes the view of events.
    I've done a lot of work on the various overt and covert uses of propaganda in the 2nd World War...

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    1. Thanks G, history is fascinating,there is all human life in the past,but we ignore it, the best thing you can do is read history and factual books, their far more interesting than fiction to me. Not that there is anything wrong with a good Stephen Kinng.

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