A new history of Dartmoor reveals a dark wartime story
May 02, 2022
3 minutes
Nicholas Guyatt
Nicholas Guyatt is a professor of American
history at Cambridge @NicholasGuyatt Illustrated by Paul Blow
In the summer of 2017, I was on holiday with my family in Devon when we came across Dartmoor prison. I knew it had held some notorious murderers behind its walls, along with a slew of political prisoners (from Irish Republicans to conscientious objectors). But I didn’t know it had been built in 1809 to hold French POWs from the Napoleonic wars. More embarrassingly, since I teach
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