Remembrance: The untold story of Belgian refugees in Britain during World War One

During World War One, a quarter of a million Belgian men, women and children sought sanctuary in Britain. The number remains to this day the largest influx of refugees in UK history.Escaping wartime occupation in their home country, they settled in towns, villages and cities across Britain, leaving a huge and positive cultural mark on their adopted land. With the majority of these refugees returning to their homeland in peace time, their influence has remained relatively little-known and rarely written about.A hundred years later, a collaborative campaign was launched by academics from the universities of Leuven (KUL) and Leeds, to trace the…