Discover more about the above photos in the Refugee Groups section below.
Welcome to the Cambridge Refugee History Trail!
Discover locations and personal stories relating to children and adults, who found safety in Cambridge between the late 1930s and mid-1990s.
The trail highlights the long history of welcoming refugees in Cambridge. The trail focuses on locations and stories of selected refugee groups arriving in Cambridge between 1937 and 1995, including: refugee children from the Basque region in Spain (1937), children from the Kindertransport (1938-39), refugees from Poland at the end of the Second World War (1945), refugees from Vietnam, Chile and Argentina during the 1970s, and refugees from Bosnia in the 1990s. Refugees are associated with ‘forced migration’, whereby people have to flee their home country, or cannot return to their home country, due to persecution and risks to their lives. Discover more about the map and refugee groups below.
Trails are self-guided and unaccompanied. They should be completed in daylight hours. Participants of the trail do so at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety. Carers are responsible for their children. Participants should follow local laws and safety guidelines. In case of an emergency, please contact 999.
This project was funded by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and is part of the research portfolio linked to the Social Sciences at ARU.
Map
The map highlights locations, which link to personal stories of refugees coming to Cambridge.
Click below to discover more about these links.
Refugee Groups
Discover personal stories of the children from the Basque region in Spain (1937), the children from the Kindertransport (1938/9), the Polish military personnel who fought with the British in the Second World War, refugees from Vietnam, Argentina and Chile during the 1970s, and refugees from Bosnia during the mid-1990s.
Please click below to discover their stories.