-
Mary Ward Settlement House entry text A photograph of the text pasted up above one of the entries to Mary Ward Settlement House, taken August 2025. In the 1930s and 40s the Settlement made its rooms available to Austrian refugees (in particular) to meet together and discuss issues such as the post-war future of Austria - which was very much undecided until the Moscow Declaration in 1943.
-
Useful Addresses from the 'Blue Book': While you are in England : helpful information and guidance for every refugee A directory of organisations and services for refugees. This was issued to every refugee who registered at Bloomsbury House
-
ULU Choir singing in Waterloo to raise funds for the Hungarian Appeal The University of London Student Union Choir sang in Waterloo to raise money for the Hungarian Appeal in December 1956. Following the violent suppression by the Soviets of the Hungarian Revolution, 200,000 refugees had to leave the country - 22,000 of these were admitted to the UK.
-
2. Souvenir booklet Souvenir leaflet
Hinrichsen/Levy Papers (uncatalogued)
-
3. Basque refugees 1937 Basque refugees arriving in France following the bombing of Guernica, 1937. Virginia Woolf believed she saw such refugees crossing Tavistock Square and wrote about this in her diary. However, this is unlikely to be true, given how difficult it was for refugees to enter the UK at the time.
-
4. Mecklenburg Square, 1939 Refugees outside the Headquarters of the British Committee for Czech Refugees, Mecklenburgh Square, 1939
-
6. Austrian Flier Flier produced by the Austrian Group: Das kommende Oesterreich (The coming Austria) advertising discussion evenings about the future of Austria and the legal status of Austrian refugees and how this impacts on their ability to take part in civil defence in the UK, at the Mary Ward Settlement, Tavistock Place
-
6. Tavistock Square pre 1940
-
6. 52 Tavistock Square Bomb damage to Virginia Woolf's house at 52 Tavistock Square
-
7. Kerr Family Cartoon of the Kerr family
-
8. MoI at Senate House, 1940 Journalists in the MoI housed in Senate House, May 1940
-
10. Fundraising for Hungarian Appeal, 1956 Members of University of London raising money using a 'mile of pennies', October 1956
-
9. Staff of the Wiener Library Susanne Rosenstock (URO), Hans Reichmann (URO, AJR), Ilse Wolff (first librarian at the WL) Alfred Wiener (founder), Eva Reichmann (Director of Research, managed eyewitness account collection) and Werner Rosenstock (AJR General Secretary, editor of Journal 1941-82)