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Book Launch! Reading Hitler’s Victims: Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War

Dr Ellen Pilsworth’s forthcoming monograph Reading Hitler’s Victims: Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War is now in production with Berghahn Books. It will be…Read More >

Call for Papers: 10 September 2026 Symposium

Mapping a Nation of Refuge across Time, Space, Institutions and Disciplines Symposium | 10 September 2026 | Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), Reading Research on displacement, asylum, and refuge…Read More >

Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture 

The Kindertransport often refers to the rescue mission of roughly 10,000 children from Nationalist Socialist Germany and occupied territories to Britain. To date, it remains one of the most symbolically…Read More >