Overview

From an unlikely Technical College in internment, run by the dubious character Ludwig Warschauer or the unusual female electrical engineer Ira Rischowski, to the unprecedented and creative initiative that was the trading estates where many refugees set up their businesses, this book is full of surprises. You may be intrigued to learn how much the refugees contributed to the British War Effort: from Ludwig Löwy who created new aircraft for the RAF, to Londex, a little known engineering company which made lighting equipment for buoys and submarines, and many others, these case studies reveal how the refugees helped Britain win the war. Contributors are: Tony Morgan, Scott Cairns, Tiffany Beebe, Andrea Hammel, Anna Nyburg, Simon Willey, Cathryn Enis, Simon Parkin, Felicitas Starr-Egger, Jonathan Aylen C, Charmian Brinson, Rob David, Stephen Richardson, Nicholas Russell, Esther Saraga, and Miriam David. You can hear directly from the editors in this podcast episode.

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""This yearbook spotlights the range of experiences of individuals and their families who sought a future in Britain from the early 1930s onwards. Not only are stories of some of their lives recounted, but also their contributions to the economic and social life of the host country, both before, during and after WWII, are clearly demonstrated, together with the part played in their experience by the British government of the time."" – Ian Hoose, in: The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology (2026), pp. 1-3.

Author Information

Anna Nyburg, Ph.D., is Honorary Lecturer at CLCC, a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, and a trustee of Insiders/Outsiders. She is the author of Emigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon Press 2014), as well as of many other publications. Charmian Brinson, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London and a Founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. She is the author of many publications on exile, including The Strange Case of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm (Institute of Modern Languages Research 1995), and, together with Richard Dove, of Working for the War Effort (Vallentine Mitchell 2021).

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