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  • Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect

    To mark the recent publication by Princeton University Press of a book entitled Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect, its co-editors Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira and one of the other contributors to the volume Barbara Penner will introduce us to the life and work of this talented Austrian-born Jewish architect, designer and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.

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  • The Cassirers and their Circles

    The Cassirers were a remarkable German Jewish family – highly successful in business and leaders of European culture.

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  • Thames & Hudson or Danube & Spree?

    To mark the publication of her book, The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson, Dr.Anna Nyburg will give a talk about the history of the internationally famous London-based publishing house founded by refugees from Nazism.

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  • Joseph Horovitz, Composer (1926-2022): A Centenary Tribute

    To mark the centenary of the birth in Vienna of celebrated composer and much-loved teacher Joseph Horovitz, who came as a child to this country in 1938, Insiders/Outsiders is honoured to play host to a special online event to pay tribute to this versatile and highly respected figure in the British musical world.

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  • Edith Tudor Hart: A Life Reframed

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom
    Virtual Event

    To mark the recent publication of her new biography of Edith Tudor Hart A Woman Named Edith – the first in English – Daria Santini will illuminate the creative and investigative process behind the book.

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  • The Circle: Refugee Architects and Engineers in Britain

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom

    In their effort to relocate to Britain and rebuild their lives,  architects fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe were supported not only by the various refugee organisations active in the country but also by their British colleagues, especially through the activities of the RIBA Refugee Committee and the Architects Refugee Fund.

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  • Designing From Home

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom

    Designing From Home is a new short documentary film co-directed by Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and produced by Banyak Films, which explores the north London house where influential graphic designer FHK Henrion (1914-1990) lived and worked for over forty years, and features interviews with his four children alongside original archive material from Henrion’s archive at the University of Brighton Design Archives.

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  • Marian Mahler: both famous and mysterious

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom

    Marian Mahler (1909-1982) was born in Wies, Austria and settled in the UK in 1937. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) as well as architecture, with Josef Hoffmann, from late 1928 until early 1933.

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