Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies
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The Centre focuses on the history of German-speaking emigrés who found refuge in Britain, their personal experiences, and contribution to British society. 🔗: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/research-centre-german-austrian-exile-studies-exile
Catch up on some of our blog posts like this one by Kat Hubschmann, Miller Archivist. ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-cen...
Bridging Generations – Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, Miller Archivist Kat Hubschmann highlights some of the difficulties faced by those who tried to flee Nazi oppression in Austria.
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Our visiting fellows @charlieknight.bsky.social and @monjast96.bsky.social are organising a conference and keynote on ego-documents and life writing on 14 April at the University of Southampton. Register here for in person attendance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-b...
Join us at 'Thinking Authoritarianism: The Prague-Vienna Circle in British Exile' on 6 May 2026. Speakers at the workshop will include Jeremy Adler, Peter Filkins, Maria Peacock and Erhard Schüttpelz. Programme and further details at: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Advanced registration essential!
Thinking Authoritarianism: The Prague-Vienna Circle in British Exile
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Our Exile Archives grow again! The Siegfried & Lotte Moos Papers, documenting two anti-Nazi German refugees who reshaped their lives in Britain, have now been catalogued. This collection offers a vivid portrait of exile, creativity, and resistance. More info: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/library/germ...
Siegfried and Lotte Moos Papers
The papers give an insight into the lives of two, nominally Jewish, refugees from the Nazis who had to flee Germany in 1933 because of their political beliefs and activities.
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📣Seminar | 25 March 2026 “Never Give Up: Female German Anti-Fascists and the Rise of Hitler” with Dr Corinne Painter (Leeds). A look at the women who recognised the Nazi threat and kept pushing for justice. 📍 Senate House, London + online ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Never Give Up: Female German Anti-Fascists and the Rise of Hitler
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📣New blog post: The ‘Deaf Kindertransport’: Emerging Research on Dr Felix Reich @charlieknight.bsky.social explores how attention to disability and migration reveals the extreme pressures refugees faced and the strategies they developed to navigate them. Read here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-cen...
EXILE Blogs
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📣 Seminar|Wed, 4 Mar 2026|6-7.30pm Join us for our next seminar "On Hitler Emigrés in Ireland and Northern Ireland: those who came, those who could not" by Gisela Holfter (Limerick) & Noel Russell (Belfast). 📍 Senate House, London + Zoom All welcome | Registration required.
📣 Seminar | Wed, 4 Feb 2026 | Senate House & Zoom "Sudetenland Political Refugees in 1938: The Role of Labour MP D.R. Grenfell in Prague" Drawing on family archives and oral history, Rosamund Mykura examines both the possibilities and limits of rescue. 🕕 6:00–7:30pm 🎟️ Free | registration required
Join us for this year's Miller Memorial Lecture on Art Historian Helen Rosenau’s Jewish and Feminist Studies as Anti-Fascist Defiance! 📅 12 June, 6-7:30pm 📍 Senate House, London Registration essential - all welcome! #ExileStudies #UniversityOfLondon #AcademicEvents ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Her Heart Belongs to Jewish and Women’s Questions’ (Lutz Weltman, 1951) Art Historian Helen Rosenau’s Jewish and Feminist Studies as Anti-Fascist Defiance (The 2025 Miller Memorial Lecture)
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