Resistance, Rights and Refuge: Britain and Chile 50 Years on from the Chilean Coup
Our exhibition and events are the result of a collaborative project between Dr Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles in partnership with Dr Gillian Murphy at the LSE Library and Paul Dudman at the Living Refugee Archive (LRA), University of East London.
We would like to give special thanks to the Valencia Family, Juan Cava, Paty Pons, Nidia Castro and Gloria Miqueles for their donations to the “Documenting Chile Collection” at the LRA.
Thank you also to Charlotte Eaton who has worked on the project with us and to the LSE Library and the Department of International History for sponsoring it.
José Balmes, “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” - Documenting Chile Collection, Living Refugee Archive, UEL
Dr Tanya Harmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. She is the author of Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (2011) and Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020) as well as numerous articles, chapters and edited collections on the history of revolution, inter-American politics, women, gender and the Cold War in Latin America. Her current research examines Southern Cone exiles in Cuba during the 1970s and 1980s and their return to Chile after the dictatorship. She lives in North London with her family and when is not being a mum or working at LSE, she volunteers for Haringey Welcome producing the podcast, No Small Victories: Community Tales of Resistance.
Gloria Miqueles is a Chilean independent researcher and curator. After arriving in Britain through the WUS programme as an exile and former political prisoner in 1977, she studied, worked and eventually made a life for her and son in London. In addition to working full-time in Bioinformatics at NHSBT, she has worked tirelessly to keep the memory of Chile’s past alive and seek justice for victims of the dictatorship. In 2017-18, Gloria collaborated with Dr Jasmine Gideon, Reader in Gender, Health, and International Development; Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, on a project to research and co-curate the project: Crafting Resistance-The Art of Chilean Political Prisoners’- exhibition and documentary. Recently retired , Gloria is now committed full-time to memory work. In the midst of resurgence of denialism and revisionism in Chile she believes this work is as important than ever.
