James Radcliffe
James Radcliffe
James Radcliffe graduated from Oxford in French and German and served in the Foreign Office until his retirement in 2000. He worked primarily in Europe and the Arab world, but also enjoyed a spell with the Geneva-based Inter-Parlimentary Union, whose aim is the international promotion of parlimentary democracy
As a Research Associate of the Centre, his initial article on "Bishop Bell and the victims of Nazism" was published in February 2004 in University College Chichester's Otter Memorial Paper 17: "Bell of Chichester (1883-1958)".
He is now pursuing the theme of Bell's help for non-Aryan Christians in the period 1933 - 1945 with a profile of Laura Livingstone, Bell's sister-in-law. She represented Bell in Berlin and Hamburg in 1938 and 1939, and her contacts there with the NS regime, the Reichskirche, the Paulusbund and Jewish leaders will form the basis of the study. In 1945 as a British Red Cross representative, she was the first woman relief worker to enter Belsen concentration camp on its liberation.
Contact: angela.radcliffe@lineone.net