Historians Organise Exhibition at Nottingham Castle: 'When the war was over: European refugees after 1945'

Dr Nick Baron and Dr Siobhan Peeling are involved in organising an exhibition, together with colleagues at the University of Manchester, as part of an AHRC-funded project to translate their earlier research work into public impact. The exhibition is titled 'When the war was over: European refugees after 1945' and will run in the People's Gallery space at Nottingham Castle from 17th August until 23rd September.

The purpose of the exhibition is to convey the experiences of people displaced in Europe by the Second World War, their time in Displaced Persons camps, the relief work conducted by various organisations and the eventual return home or resettlement of the refugees in new countries. The exhibition will display original images and material collected in archives and libraries in the UK, USA, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the course of the previous research project on East European population displacement and resettlement after the Second World War.

The exhibition is aimed particularly at those interested in European history, in questions of refugee experience, welfare and policy, as well as to local diasporic communities (most specifically, but not only, to Poles and Ukrainians, many of whom came to Nottingham after spending time in DP camps.)

For more information please see the exhibition poster.