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4,000 refugees (Basque children) are welcomed in Southampton May 1937. Would we have let them drown?
Dutch refugees being welcomed in Colchester c.1570.
Belgian refugees being welcomed at Folkestone in 1915. 16,000 in one day. How things have changed...
The first of 2,500 Hungarian refugees are welcomed on their arrival in Britain, November 1956.
Refugees from Smyrna in Turkey are welcomed in Plymouth, October 1922.
A group of Latvian refugees are welcomed in Penzance October 1950.
Huguenot refugees fleeing France in the 17th century. 25,000 were given refuge in London.
The first A-Z of London created by Huguenot refugee Jean Rocque - master cartographer.
Vietnamese refugees thank us for taking them in 1978.
Basque refugee children pose for the camera, Stoneham camp, Hampshire in 1937. Photo by Edith Tudor-Hart.
Jewish refugees arrive in Harwich 1938 as part of Kindertransport. On a proper ship.
German refugees are retrained as farmers at Hambledon after being given sanctuary in Britain in 1938.
Jewish refugee children, survivors of Belsen, attend school in Hampshire 1945
300 traumatised Jewish children, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, were welcomed in the Lake District in 1945. Photo by Kurt Hutton.
Lady Moyra Browne, Superintendent-in-Chief of St John's Ambulance, welcomes refugees from Uganda on their arrival at Stansted Airport in 1972. Photo by Chris Ware.
Refugees Gabriela and Humberto before their escape from Chile, they were welcomed in Swansea in 1976.
Gabriela said of her arrival in Swansea after a year in a refugee camp in Argentina “
We could cook real food for ourselves, I even started physically shaking when I saw four different sorts of cheese in the supermarket.
"I always call Wales my adopted mum...”
We could cook real food for ourselves, I even started physically shaking when I saw four different sorts of cheese in the supermarket.
"I always call Wales my adopted mum...”
“... my adopted mum welcomed me, brought me up, gave me opportunities and nurtured me. One day, my bones will be buried here."
You have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land...
Warsan Shire
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land...
Warsan Shire
