The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers The Englishness of English Art sounds like something a parish-pump little Englander might like ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1943 Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka exhibited an immense, violent painting of a crucifixion called What We ...
"Between 1933 and 1940, about 100,000 refugees from central Europe came to Britain to escape the nightmare of fascism," said Christopher Turner in Literary Review. Mostly Jewish, many were also ...