This is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk.
Dr. Tessa Murdoch talking about her new book Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, recently published by the V&A
Talk by David Jones about his discovery that his creative work in clay & installation has become a medium for expressing his Jewish heritage
Berlin-based art historian and curator Dorothea Schöne will give a talk entitled ‘Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed’.
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.
Film screening & discussion with filmmaker Caroline Pick & psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach.
In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
The Ensemble Burletta will be giving a concert at Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh which includes émigré composer Hans Gál’s Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello.
Alistair Fair introduces the life and work of émigré architect Peter Moro, on the occasion of his new monograph on him.
Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of Kim Philby, talks about her riveting new novel, Edith and Kim, published on 31 March by HarperCollins.
Mark the 80th anniversary of the internment of refugees from Nazi Europe by the British Government with this four-day trip
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
Stephen Duncan FRSS will be talking about his career as a sculptor in both the UK and Italy.
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first generation refugees and immigrants to Britain
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
An immersive tribute to the 1930s uniquely Budapester humour as presented in London by Hungarian Jewish émigrés a hundred years ago.
A conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
Poet, Maia Elsner, will be reading past work and new pieces inspired by the art of her grandfather, the late Dante Elsner (1920-1997)
Ceremony to lay a Stolperstein for Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
The second in a series of summer research seminars on The Arts of Postwar Britain 1945–1965 with Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett
Tribute to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral.
A talk about The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World
A talk by Dorothea Schöne about Jussuf, Abbo, a fascinating but still too little-known émigré artist, who died in London in 1953.