Scope and Contents Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...

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Papers concerning Margareta Burkill’s work with German and Austrian refugee children before, during and after the Second World War. The collection includes Burkill’s memoir and some correspondence. There are also notes on the children, including details of their accommodation during the war and their later careers. Also included is material relating to the Cambridge Refugee Committee.

Scope and Contents The papers relate to the work done by Professor and Mrs Hutton in caring for Jewish, Polish, Czech and other children who were brought to Cambridge from Europe in 1939 as refugees from Nazi persecution and also in attempting to secure release from internment, jobs and educational openings for adult refugees. As well as the case-histories, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are pamphlets, reports and cuttings about the Nazi regime across Europe. There are also first-hand accounts of...