1st Edition
Belgian Refugees in First World War Britain
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
Biography
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.
