Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University Part two of this blogpost series will explore the individual stories of the one University College London (UCL) student and four members of staff who faced internment on the Isle of Man after they had been evacuated to Aberystwyth. As it had been during the First World War, Read More
Month: May 2023
The Evacuated German and Austrian Students and Staff of University College London in Aberystwyth during the Second World War: 1. UCL Students not interned
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University During the Second World War, nationals from Germany and Austria, many of whom had their citizenship removed and had found refuge in Britain in the years before the war began, were subjected to the judgement and suspicion of being “enemy aliens”. Austrians, it is important to note, had Read More