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How Folkestone took in 120,000 Belgian refugees

25 February 2019

Dr Christophe Declercq (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) talks about the influx of 120,000 Belgian refugees – including his own grandfather – into Folkestone in 1914.

Listen: BBC Two’s ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ (from 2 mins 22 secs)