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Seeking Sanctuary: A History of Refugees in Britain
208Overview
Seeking Sanctuary explores the history of people looking for refuge in this country. It starts with those protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the Netherlands in the 16th century. It traces successive waves of peoples in the context of why they fled. At various times this was due to religious persecution, political upheaval, war and ethnic cleansing. After graduating from Birmingham University in Economic and Social History Jane Marchese Robinson spent some 30 years as an advocate for marginalised groups including the homeless, people with disabilities and mental health problems and latterly refugees. She had always loved writing but it wasn't 2010, when she finished working full time, that she could become fully committed and undertook the MA in Creative Writing at Plymouth University. An historical novel set at the time of the Boer War ensued. On discussion with Pen and Sword this became the basis for an historically researched book Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War. The book was published in 2016 and kindled interest in a subject which had been much overlooked. The present book Seeking Sanctuary, a History of Refugees in Britain has been inspired by the work Jane undertook with refugees and asylum seekers in Plymouth as well as a personal discovery. It was only after her mother's death in 2004 that she delved into her grandmother's history and found that she had been one of the 250,000 Belgian refugees who fled here when the German army over ran their country in 1914. Uncovering her grandmother's history meant learning about the fascinating story of those thousands of refugees who sought sanctuary here in the First World War.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526739612 |
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| Publisher: | Pen and Sword |
| Publication date: | 01/31/2021 |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
The present book “Seeking Sanctuary, a History of Refugees in Britain” has been inspired by the work Jane undertook with refugees and asylum seekers in Plymouth as well as a personal discovery. It was only after her mother’s death in 2004 that she delved into her grandmother’s history and found that she had been one of the 250,000 Belgian refugees who fled here when the German army over ran their country in 1914. Uncovering her grandmother’s history meant learning about the fascinating story of those thousands of refugees who sought sanctuary here in the First World War.
Table of Contents
Acknomlegements vii
Introduction viii
Chapter 1 The First Protestant Refugees 1
Chapter 2 The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 9
Chapter 3 The Poor Palatines 23
Chapter 4 The French Revolution Refugees and Other European Exiles of the Nineteenth Century 27
Chapter 5 The Portuguese Refugees in Plymouth 35
Chapter 6 A Story of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Persecution 39
Chapter 7 The First World War and Germany Invades Belgium 44
Chapter 8 The Basque Refugee Children 64
Chapter 9 The Nazis and Their Persecution of the Jewish Peoples 77
Chapter 10 Second World War Refugees in Britain 89
Chapter 11 The Displacement of Peoples after the Second World War 104
Chapter 12 The Hungarian Uprising 115
Chapter 13 The Ugandan Asians 124
Chapter 14 The Chilean Coup and its Aftermath 137
Chapter 15 A Vietnamese Story 144
Chapter 16 The Balkan Wars in the 1990s and the Kosovo Humanitarian Evacuation Programme 154
Chapter 17 The Syrian Crisis 161
Chapter 18 Afterword 165
Notes 173
Bibliography 178
Index 179