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Squatters at the ‘White City’ PoW camp near Ashton Gate, August 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the summer of 1946, thousands of British families took the law into their own hands to temporarily solve their housing problems by \u201crequisitioning\u201d empty military camps. This mass-squatting movement was rapid, spontaneous and entirely working-class in character. While it was often driven at ground level by women, the movement soon developed a formal leadership structure dominated by ex-servicemen who had served as NCOs and warrant officers.<\/p>\n

Bristol, with particularly acute housing problems, and a large number of former British and US military sites in and around the city, was one of the leading centres of the squatters\u2019 movement. Eugene Byrne examines the story of the 1946 squatters with reference to events in south Bristol and the stories of some of the families involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the summer of 1946, thousands of British families took the law into their own hands to temporarily solve their housing problems by \u201crequisitioning\u201d empty military camps. This mass-squatting movement was rapid, spontaneous and entirely working-class in character. 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