Émigré historians
Émigré historians (both those who were born abroad but worked in this country, or Britons who have plied their trade abroad) have been a significant feature of in the story of history in this country. The former category encompasses some of the most distinguished members of the British historical, from early immigrants who came by choice (Vinogradoff, Namier), to grown academics fleeing the Nazi regime (Pevsner) to those born abroad who received their univeristy education in Britain (Elton). The influence of émigrés can be seen to have transformed the study of art history in this country with the arrival of Aby Warburg, his circle, and his library. Historians have also come to Britain from the United States and the Commonwealth.
The latter group encompasses figures such as John Elliott and Lawrence Stone, though
it is worth noting that Elliott returned following a couple of decades
at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, showing these emigrations/immigrations
are not necessarily permanent. Most recently another wave of emigrants
from Britain has included Brewer, Cannadine, Colley, Ferguson and Schama.
- Historians:
- Berlin, Isaiah
Cam, Helen Maud
Elliott, John Huxtable
Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph
Finley, Moses Israel
Hobsbawm, Eric J.
Howard, Michael Eliot
Namier, Lewis Bernstein
Pevsner, Nikolaus Bernhard Leon
Pocock, John Greville Agard
Postan, Michael Mossey
Robbins, Caroline
Runciman, James Cochran Stevenson
Russell, Conrad Sebastian Robert
Stone, Lawrence
Vinogradoff, Paul
Warburg, Aby
- Institutions:
- Warburg Institute
- Themes:
- Art history
Related publications
- Out of the Third Reich: Refugee Historians in Post-War Britain, ed. Peter Alter (London, 1998)
- Steven E. Aschheim, Beyond the Border: the German-Jewish Legacy Abroad (Princeton, 2007)
- Daniel Snowman, The Hitler migrs: the Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism (London, 2002)
