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by Anna Nyburg (Volume Editor), Charmian Brinson (Volume Editor)
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.
Author Biography
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).
