Expatriate Lives in Early 20th Century Britain

Articles drawing on archival research about the contribution made by foreign visitors to British life in the early 20th Century, with a focus on Japanese and North American expatriates, covering subjects as diverse as baseball, musical theatre, the silk trade, and . . . poultry keeping.

Diamond Lives: There have been various attempts to popularise American baseball in Great Britain in the past 150 years. These articles tell the story of those attempts and some of the expatriates who contributed to the cause.

Staged Identities: The lives of entertainers are characterised by constructed, and sometimes complicated, identities shaped to meet audience expectations. These articles tell the story of expatriate entertainers in Great Britain caught between their lived experiences and audience expectations.

Niles Voyagers: In the Summer of 1942, as the Pacific War raged, dozens of Long-time Japanese residents of Great Britain found themselves repatriated to Japan on board an aging passenger line, El Nil (The Nile). These articles use the stories of some of these repatriates to paint a picture of life in the Japanese community in Great Britain before the Second World War.