'With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspiring and timely intervention into the fields of exile and childhood studies, demonstrating just how inextricably the two are linked.' (Professor Kiera Vaclavik, Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures, Queen Mary, University of London) The essays that make up this book cover a diverse range of subjects, all broadly on the theme of child refugees from Nazism in Britain. The books three sections - on displacement, children in art, and children in education and play - indicate the various topics considered in the study. The authors come from different academic fields - including German and Austrian exile studies, art history, language and literature, and education - so each chapter offers a depth of research as well as adding to the breadth of the overarching theme. Thus far, there has been no study dedicated to examining both the experience of these refugee children and those who worked with them, and yet they and their own children live on, marked in different ways by their experience and making their own mark in British art and literature too.

Charmian Brinson is Emeritus Professor of German at Imperial College London and a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London. She has published numerous books and articles and has lectured extensively in Britain and abroad on the refugees from Nazism, for example on refugee organizations and on the relations between the refugees and the British. Her particular interests include women in exile and political exile. Anna Nyburg holds a PhD in Exile Studies from the University of London. The subject of her doctoral thesis was refugee art publishers in Britain. Since then she has published widely on the refugees from Nazism in art publishing, design and manufacturing. She is the author of three books, co-producer of a film, and committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies as well as a trustee of the Arts Foundation, which runs the Insiders/Outsiders festival.