Catalogue description Records of the Resident Foreigners Section

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Reference: Division within BW
Title: Records of the Resident Foreigners Section
Description:

Records of the Resident Foreigners Section relating to the provision of national centres, English language teaching and British cultural resources for groups of refugees who came to Great Britain during the Second World War.

Comprises correspondence and papers in BW 108
Date: 1942-1946
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

British Council, Resident Foreigners Section, 1940-1946
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

A Resident Foreigners Section (subsequently Home Division (2.1)) whose function was to look after the needs of foreign refugees coming to the UK as merchant seamen or members of the armed forces was established in 1940. As well as organising the teaching of English and the supply of books, films etc., it assisted in the running of national centres for foreign nationals in London, Liverpool and other centres.

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