Current and upcoming exhibitions
Crisis of Britishness? Immigration, Race and Nation in Modern Britain
The idea that British identity and culture is threatened by non-white migration has pervaded contemporary British history. This exhibition highlights far-right nationalist rhetoric and the anti-fascist, anti-racist responses that followed. Using items from our unique archive it highlights the struggle over immigration, race and nation in Britain in the 1970-90s.
Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women
This exhibition explores stories of Armenian and Yezidi women held in genocidal captivity, using humanitarian records of Armenian survivors from the 1920s and recent interviews with and compelling portraits of Yezidi survivors in Iraq.
The Library of Lost Books
Our latest exhibition brings the story of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, Berlin (1872-1942) and its library into the heart of London.
Upcoming events
Exhibition Film Event, Part II: Suzanne Khardalian, Inside Her, Inside Me
This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Post War Categorization(s): Humanitarian Aid Organizations and Displaced Persons (1945-1951)
Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust.
Virtual Exhibition Panel: Archiving ISIS
This virtual panel will discuss how primary source documentation related to the activities of the transnational jihadist terrorist organisation, Islamic State (IS, or ISIS), has been collected, archived and made accessible for research, intelligence and other purposes over the last two decades.
Virtual Exhibition Panel: On Interviewing and Listening to Survivors
This virtual panel will bring together speakers in conversation, moderated by Dr Rebecca Jinks, to discuss their foundational and wide-ranging work on interviewing survivors of the Holocaust and genocide.
Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Forgotten Victims: The Mass Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War (POWs) During the Second World War
This education talk looks at the experiences of different groups within the Soviet POW population and how they were affected by Nazi racial, demographic and economic policies in occupied Eastern Europe.
