Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s In the early 1940s, the publisher Collins launched ...
The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers The Englishness of English Art sounds like something a parish-pump little Englander might like ...
"Between 1933 and 1940, about 100,000 refugees from central Europe came to Britain to escape the nightmare of fascism," said Christopher Turner in Literary Review. Mostly Jewish, many were also ...