Belgian Refugees in First World War Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367891275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Jacqueline Jenkinson

Opis

During the First World War, 250,000 Belgian refugees fled to Britain to avoid the German invasion. This book discusses how the arrival of Belgian exiles generated intense public interest and charitable activity throughout Great Britain and Ireland. It was originally published as a special issue of the Immigrants and Minorities journal.

Spis treści

Introduction – Soon gone, long forgotten: uncovering British responses to Belgian refugees during the First World War  1. Belgian exiles, the British and the Great War: the Birtley Belgians of Elisabethville  2. ‘Brave little Belgium’ arrives in Huddersfield ... voluntary action, local politics and the history of international relief work  3. The Pelabon Munitions works and the Belgian village on the Thames: community and forgetfulness in outer-metropolitan suburbs  4. Administering relief: Glasgow Corporation’s support for Scotland’s c. 20,000 Belgian refugees  5. ‘Come and find sanctuary in Eire’: The experiences of Ireland‘s Belgian refugees during the First World War  6. Finding Belgian refugees in Cymru1914.org: using digital resources for uncovering the hidden histories of the First World War in Wales

O autorze

Jacqueline Jenkinson is a History Lecturer at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on minority groups including Lithuanian, Belgian refugees and black colonial Britons in the First World War. Her book on the seaport riots, Black 1919: riots, racism and resistance in Imperial Britain was published in 2009.