The first prominent refugees -- The Huguenots and the revocation of the Edit of Nantes -- The poor Palatines -- The French Revolution refugees and other European exiles of the nineteenth century -- The Portuguese refugees in Plymouth -- A story of nineteenth- and twentieth-century persecution -- The First World War and Germany invades Belgium -- The Basque refugee children -- The Nazis and their persecution of the Jewish peoples -- Second World War refugees in Britain -- The displacement of peoples after the Second World War -- The Hungarian Uprising -- The Ugandan Asians -- The Chilean Coup and its aftermath -- A Vietnamese story -- The Balkan Wars in the 1990s and the Kosovo humanitarian evacuation programme -- The Syrian crisis
