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Author : Peter Cahalan
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051391186
Author : Jacqueline Jenkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351585248
Around 250,000 Belgian refugees who fled the German invasion spent the First World War in Britain – the largest refugee presence Britain has ever witnessed. Welcomed in a wave of humanitarian sympathy for ‘Poor Little Belgium’, within a few months Belgian exiles were pushed off the front pages of newspapers by the news of direct British involvement in the war. Following rapid repatriation at British government expense in late 1918 and 1919 Belgian refugees were soon lost from public memory with few memorials or markers of their mass presence. Reactions to Belgian refugees discussed in this book include the mixed responses of local populations to the refugee presence, which ranged from extensive charitable efforts to public and trade union protests aimed at protecting local jobs and housing. This book also explores the roles of central and local government agencies which supported and employed Belgian refugees en masse yet also used them as a propaganda tool to publicise German outrages against civilians to encourage support for the Allied war effort. This book covers responses to Belgian refugees in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in a Home Front wartime episode which generated intense public interest and charitable and government action. This book was originally published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora.
Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : MINN:319510016869611
Author : Michaël Amara,In Flanders Fields Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Refugees
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115117702
Author : Peter Gatrell,Liubov Zhvanko
Publisher : Cultural History of Modern War
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1526139359
Le site de l'aediteur indique: "Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the war, a senior Red Cross official wrote 'there were refugees everywhere. It was as if the entire world had to move or was waiting to move'. Europe on the move: refugees in the era of the Great War, 1912-23 is the first attempt to understand their experiences as a whole and to establish the political, social and cultural significance and ramifications of the wartime refugee crisis. Drawing on original research by leading specialists from more than a dozen countries, it will become the definitive work on the subject and will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand how governments and public opinion responded to refugees a century ago."
Author : Felicity Rash,Christophe Declercq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319731087
This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom to commemorate its military events, its socio-political consequences, and its cultural legacy. Of these events, very few have paid attention to the fates of Belgium or the Netherlands, even though it was the invasion of Belgium in August 1914 that was the catalyst for Great Britain declaring war. The occupation of Belgium had long-term consequences for its people, but much of the military and social history of the Western Front concentrates on northern France, and the Netherlands is largely forgotten as a nation affected by the First World War. By opening the field beyond the military and beyond the front, this collection explores the interdisciplinary and international nature of the Great War.
Author : Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198814214
Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across the globe. Unsettled explores the hidden world of these camps and traces the complicated relationships that emerged between refugees and citizens.
Author : Martin Conway,José Gotovitch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782389910
During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In this volume, an international team of historians consider the exile groups from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and Czechoslovakia, analysing not merely the relations between the plethora of exile regimes and the British government in terms of its military and social dimensions but also the legacy of this period of exile for the politics of post-war Europe. Particular attention is paid to the Belgian exiles, the most numerous exile population in Britain during World War II.
Author : Catriona Pennell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199590582
In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time and successfully challenges the myth of British 'war enthusiasm'. A Kingdom United explores what people felt, and how they acted, in response to an unanticipated and unprecedented crisis. It is a history of both ordinary people and elite figures in extraordinary times. Dr Pennell demonstrates that describing the reactions of over 40 million British and Irish people to the outbreak of war as either enthusiastic in the British case, or disengaged in the Irish, is over-simplified and inadequate. Emotional reactions to the war were ambiguous and complex, and changed over time. By the end of 1914 the populations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland had largely embraced the war, but the war had also embraced them and showed no signs of relinquishing its grip. The five months from August to December 1914 set the shape of much that was to follow. A Kingdom United describes and explains that twenty-week formative process. Pennell draws from a vast array of diaries, letters, journals, and newspaper accounts by the very people who experienced the war in its first dramatic five months. She outlines the variety of responses felt amongst both the ordinary people and elite figures from across the country.
Author : Jane Marchese Robinson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526739629
“An entrancing read, illuminating how life in Britain has been influenced and enhanced by those who arrived, often with nothing except their skills.” —Babs Horton, author of Winter Swallows Seeking Sanctuary explores the history of people looking for refuge in Great Britain. It starts with those Protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the Netherlands in the sixteenth century. It traces successive waves of peoples in the context of why they fled. At various times this was due to religious persecution, political upheaval, war and ethnic cleansing. “The author writes from the perspective of her work with asylum seekers, which evidently generated her interest in Britain’s history as a refuge. Jane Marchese Robinson’s passion for displaced persons is apparent in her examples and case studies, and for anyone with an interest in, or connection with, the selected groups of refugees over the past 100 years, it will make interesting reading . . . The author demonstrates compassion for, and empathy with, the groups she examines, and many will find this the compelling aspect of the book.” —Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives “This is a wide-ranging book which explores these major refugee movements in depth and it is often emotional in its details.” —Bristol and Avon Family History Society
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Belgians
ISBN : UOM:39015063586617
Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:$B476705
Author : Jacqueline Jenkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000050790
Following the First World War and in actions that challenged Britain’s reputation as a liberal democracy, various government departments implemented policies of mass repatriation from Britain of populations of colonial and friendly migrants and refugees. Many of those repatriated had played a significant part in the war effort and had given valuable service in the combat zones and on the home front: serving in the armed forces, in labour battalions and employed in key wartime industries, such as munitions work, the merchant navy and wartime construction. This book sets out to uncover why central government decided to implement a policy of repatriation of "friendly" peoples after the war. It also explores the imposition of wartime and post-war legal restrictions on these groups as part of a major shift in policy towards reducing the settlement and limiting the employment of overseas populations in Britain.
Author : Larry Zuckerman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0814797040
The author presents a compelling and untold story of Germany's occupation of Belgium after WW1. It's a great, trade history book from a wonderful storyteller.
Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020627
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
