Join us at the Barnet Libraries Literary Festival and meet authors Andrea Hammel and John Eidinow talking to David Herman about their current books.
The Kindertransport What Really Happened: In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the 'Kindertransport', this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart.
Esther Simpson: Esther Simpson, Tess to her friends devoted her life to resettling academic refugees, whom she thought of as her family. By the end of her life, Simpson could count among her 'children' sixteen Nobel Prize winners, eighteen Knights, seventy-four fellows of the Royal Society, and thirty-four fellows of the British Academy.
Her 'children' made a major contribution to Allied victory in World War Two.
Please note, this event is online only, not in-person.
Age guidance: Adults only.
The authors will be answering your questions. Copies of the book will be available for sale from an online bookseller.
