The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants

The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants

In the 1930s, as fascism engulfed Europe, a wave of artists, writers, filmmakers, architects, photographers, designers and publishers – mostly Jews and communists – came to the United Kingdom to seek safety. Owen Hatherley’s latest book, The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century, published in March, is a collective biography of them. The book aims to shed light on just how much of what we might…