Soeben ist ein Sonderband der Zeitschrift „Immigrants & Minorities“ erschienenen:
Jacqueline Jenkinson (Hg.), British Responses to Belgian Refugees during the First World War – Sonderheft Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, vol. 34, no. 2 (2016).
Die dort versammelten Beiträge widmen sich den belgischen Flüchtlingen in Großbritannien während des Ersten Weltkriegs.
Inhalt:
• Jacqueline Jenkinson – ‘Soon gone, long forgotten: uncovering British responses to Belgian refugees during the First World War’ (pp. 101–112)
• Daniel Laqua – ‘Belgian exiles, the British and the Great War: the Birtley Belgians of Elisabethville’ (pp. 113–131)
• Rebecca Gill – ‘“Brave little Belgium” arrives in Huddersfield … voluntary action, local politics and the history of international relief work’ (pp. 132–150)
• Christophe Declercq and Helen Baker – ‘The Pelabon Munitions works and the Belgian village on the Thames: community and forgetfulness in outer-metropolitan suburbs’ (pp. 151–170)
• Jacqueline Jenkinson – Administering relief: Glasgow Corporation’s support for Scotland’s c. 20,000 Belgian refugees (pp. 171–191)
• William Buck – ‘“Come and find sanctuary in Eire”: the experiences of Ireland’s Belgian refugees during the First World War’ (pp. 192–209)
• Lorna M. Hughes – ‘Finding Belgian refugees in Cymru1914.org: using digital resources for uncovering the hidden histories of the First World War in Wales’ (pp. 210–231)
Die ersten beiden Beiträge sind unter diesem Link kostenlos abrufbar.
Colony of Belgian workers in Britain. Customers being served in a butcher’s shop in Birtley-Elisabethville, County Durham, 1918
Bildnachweis: Lewis, George P. (Photographer) via Wikimedia Commons