'The Exiles of Soho', a historical walking tour, Dr Thomas C. Jones
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Date and time: Saturday , 1 July 2023 15:00 BST
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Throughout its history, Soho has been a major destination for migrants to Britain and a centre of domestic and international political radicalism. Refugees from the religious wars of early modern France, Enlightenment-era critics of absolutism, socialist and anarchist revolutionaries of the nineteenth century, and European freedom fighters in the Second World War all found a haven in the district and used it as a base to carry on their struggles from exile. On this walking tour, Dr Thomas Jones will explore this rich history, visiting significant locations for exiles from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and discussing the wider contexts that allowed Soho, and Britain, to function, as Charles Dickens’s newspaper Household Words put it, as an ‘isle of safety … for the whole world’.
Thomas Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Buckingham. His work focuses on asylum and refugees in Britain from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
This event is part of Migration: a public history festival, a series of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and walks around London, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
Contact name:
Katy Pettit