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  • Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Virtual Event

    In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.

    £6.00 – £12.00

  • The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel

    Virtual Event

    Starting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.

  • Tribute to Ernst Neuschul

    Virtual Event

    A talk by art historian Simon Lake about the rich and tumultuous life of émigré painter Ernst Neuschul.

  • Elizabeth: The Jewish Refugee in Charge of Black Propaganda

    Virtual Event

    Starting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.

  • Tribute to Kurt Jooss (1901-79)

    Virtual Event

    An event paying tribute to Kurt Jooss, the pioneering German-born modernist dancer, teacher and choreographer in the UK between 1934 -1949

  • The Portuguese Schindler: The Life and Legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes

    Virtual Event

    Starting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.

  • Engineer Refugees from Nazism in Britain and their innovations

    Imperial College Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication Sherfield Building Level 3, South Kensington Campus Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
    Hybrid Event

    Some 80,000 refugees from Nazism who made their way to safety in Britain were, inevitably, engineers.

  • Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival

    Virtual Event

    Sculptor, art educator & Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik talking about his new book, Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival – An Artobiography

  • Simon Parkin: The Island of Extraordinary Captives

    Virtual Event

    Join British journalist and author Simon Parkin for a talk to coincide with the publication of his new book. Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished first-hand accounts and previously classified documents

  • Charmian Brinson: Working for the War Effort

    Virtual Event

    Prof. Charmian Brinson talks about her fascinating new book, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War.

    Free

  • Tribute to Architect Peter Moro

    Virtual Event

    Alistair Fair introduces the life and work of émigré architect Peter Moro, on the occasion of his new monograph on him.

    Free

  • Edith and Kim: A Novel by Charlotte Philby

    Virtual Event

    Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of Kim Philby, talks about her riveting new novel, Edith and Kim, published on 31 March by HarperCollins.

    Free

  • Schools on the Move: Postponed

    Virtual Event

    Marjorie Downward will give a talk entitled ‘Schools on the Move’, which will examine three pioneering educational projects – Gordonstoun and Camphill, both in Scotland, and Bunce Court in Kent