Under the auspices of the German Studies Library Group and in association with the British Library, a lecture in memory of Graham Nattrass (1940–2012) will be delivered on Wednesday, 19 June 2024 at 17:30 at the British Library, St Pancras, London. The event will be held in the Foyle Suite; refreshments will be served at 17:30; the lecture will commence at 18:00.
The topic of the lecture is as follows:
‘The Written Culture of the German-speaking Refugees from Nazism in Britain’
The lecture will be delivered by Dr Anthony Grenville, Chair of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies.
Dr Anthony Grenville has been Chair of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies since 2013. Previously he lectured in German at the universities of Reading, Bristol, and Westminster. His principal research interests are the history of Jewish refugees from the German-speaking countries who came to Britain to escape Nazism, and exile literature. His publications include Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism (Cambridge, 2018); Stimmen der Flucht: Österreichische Emigration nach Großbritannien ab 1945 (Vienna, 2011); Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933–1970: Their Image in AJR Information (London/Portland, 2010); and Continental Britons: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe (London, 2002).
There is no charge to attend the Lecture—which is open to all—but places are limited.
If you intend to come, please email Dorothea Miehe, Chair of the German Studies Library Group—dorothea.miehe@bl.uk.
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