Recorded webinar: The Aftermath of War: Allied Occupation and Displaced Persons in post-war Europe
Dr Samantha Knapton, University of Nottingham

This webinar was recorded on 1 April 2025 as part of the HA's recent short course, ‘Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict’.
Dr Samantha K. Knapton is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an historian of central and east-central Europe, forced displacement, and international humanitarianism. In 2023, she has published her first monograph, Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-occupied Germany and a co-edited volume with Katherine Rossy, Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA – both at Bloomsbury. Her recent project (2023-24) with Queer Britain museum, London, hosted a series of workshops on uncovering ‘hidden histories’ through researching, teaching, and curating, with a concentration on doubly-marginalised histories of queer refugees post-1945.
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