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...refugee and prisoner of war camp isolated from nearby towns. Harki families were given small rooms in rows of dingy barracks within a fenced perimeter. A supervised gate controlled the entrance and exit of residents, and a 10 p.m. curfew was enforced. Cockroaches and rats were a persistent problem at Bias. With limited washing facilities, conditions were often unhygienic....

...asylum (Crone, 2012). Moral, secular tracts were added to prison libraries, as were educational works which could expand upon the subjects taught in the schoolroom, such as history, geography and mathematics. Additions at some prisons also included books on natural history (studies of wildlife and plants), practical works to assist with learning a new trade or skills for...

...asylums. While public protests critical of state policy were not feasible in countries such as the Soviet Union, they thrived in liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) resorted to a range of means to counter the anti-nuclear movement in Britain, whose anti-nuclear demonstrations...