Dr Samantha K. Knapton [she/her] 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.

This film was recorded on 1st April 2025.

This film is part of our Short course: Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict