Enemy Aliens and Germanophobia during World War 1

Plymouth Athenaeum Autumn Lecture Series
A British World War I propaganda stamp promoting the purchase of British goods and the avoidance of German goods. The stamp shows Britannia pointing to what is probably the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Image: Fine Art Trade Guild via Wikimedia Commons
A British World War 1 propaganda stamp promoting the purchase of British goods and the avoidance of German goods. The stamp shows Britannia pointing to what is probably the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Image: Fine Art Trade Guild via Wikimedia Commons

  • Plymouth Athenaeum, Derry's Cross, Plymouth PL1 2SW

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Join Plymouth Athenaeum for this lecture as Dr Sandra Barkhof from the University of Plymouth discusses the wave of Germanophobia that swept across Britain during the First World War.
During World War 1, Britain was gripped with Germanophobia, with both the government and the press playing central roles. Germanophobia impacted the German community living in the UK and resulted in a change of name for the British Royal Family.
Dr Sandra Barkhof is a lecturer in modern world history with special focus on German history and the Cold War. Her research focuses on German imperialism, the German colonies in the Pacific during World War 1, and German colonial memory and memorialisation in the Weimar Republic.
This free lecture is open to all.

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