Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies

The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies was founded in 1995, originally basing itself at the Institute of Germanic Studies of the University of London; it is now based at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Since 2013, Dr Anthony Grenville has acted as Chair of the Research Centre, whose members are Professor Charmian Brinson, Dr Jennifer Taylor (Honorary Secretary), Dr Jana Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Professor Andrea Hammel, Dr Stephanie Homer, Kat Hubschmann, Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, Dr Anna Nyburg, Dr Rachel Pistol, Dr Ines Schlenker, Dr Monja Stahlberger and Felicitas Starr-Egger. The aim of the Research Centre is to promote research in the field of German-speaking exiles in Great Britain. To this end it organises conferences and publishes their proceedings, holds regular research seminars, publishes its own peer-reviewed Yearbook and holds a biennial Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Memorial Lecture. Its members cooperate in the writing of scholarly studies, including a volume on the German-speaking refugees from Hitler in Britain, Changing Countries (2002), and Out of Austria, a study of the Austrian Centre in London, 1939-47 (2008). The research interests of the members of the Research Centre are many and varied, covering a wide range of academic disciplines. The multidisciplinary nature of the Research Centre is also reflected in its members’ many publications. Though the Research Centre is primarily concerned with the German-speaking refugees from Nazism in Britain, its scope extends to include comparable groups such as the Czech refugees from Hitler. Given its location near the heart of the principal centre of settlement of the refugees from Germany and Austria, the Research Centre readily provides advice and useful contacts to academics and postgraduates working in the field. It is the leading centre in its field in Britain.

The editors welcome contributions relating to any aspect of the field of German-speaking exile in Great Britain, not limited to the refugees from Hitler in the mid-twentieth century.


Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Alessandra Giliberto.

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Music and Exile
From 1933 to the Present Day
Volume 22
978-90-04-54410-9
Émigré Voices
Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria
Volume 21
978-90-04-47289-1
Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933
Changing Visual and Material Culture
Volume 19
978-90-04-39510-7
Exile and Gender I
Literature and the Press
Volume 17
978-90-04-31380-4
Exile and Everyday Life
Volume 16
978-90-04-29791-3
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39
New Perspectives
Volume 13
978-94-012-0886-4
‘I didn’t want to float; I wanted to belong to something’
Refugee Organizations in Britain 1933-1945
Volume 10
978-90-420-2893-7
Refugee Archives
Theory and Practice
Volume 9
978-94-012-0593-1
‘Immortal Austria’?
Austrians in Exile in Britain
Volume 8
978-94-012-0403-3
'Totally un-English'?
Britain’s Internment of ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Two World Wars
Volume 7
978-94-012-0138-4
Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-1945
Politics and Cultural Identity
Volume 6
978-94-012-0200-8
'Stimme der Wahrheit'
German-Language Broadcasting by the BBC
Volume 5
978-90-04-33436-6
Editorial Board

Charmian Brinson, Imperial College London
Jana Barbora Buresova, IMLR, University of London
Rachel Dickson, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Richard Dove†
Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees
Andrea Hammel, Aberystwyth University
Stephanie Homer, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Kat Hubschmann, Senate House Library
Bea Lewkowicz, IMLR, University of London
Sarah MacDougall, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Marian Malet, IMLR, University of London
Angharad Mountford, IMLR, University of London
Anna Nyburg, Imperial College London
Rachel Pistol, King’s College London
Andrea Reiter, University of Southampton
J.M. Ritchie†
Ines Schlenker, ILCS, University of London
Monja Stahlberger, Leo Baeck Institute London
Felicitas Starr-Egger, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Jennifer Taylor, IMLR, University of London
Ian Wallace†
“[The] Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies has established itself as a must-read for anyone interested in the field of Exile Studies in Britain and internationally.”
The Modern Language Review 100/3 (2005), pp. 855-6.
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