Louise Ann London (13 May 1947 – 26 February 2026) was a British writer, known for the book Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust (2000), credited as a scholarly addition to the historical interest in Jewish immigration, and shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2001.
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Life and career
London was born in Oxford, England on 13 May 1947, to Jewish refugees, and qualified as a lawyer. Her book Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948, was based on her thesis completed in 1992 from the University of London. London died from cancer on 26 February 2026, at the age of 78.
Selected publications
Books
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 0-521-53449-6.
Articles
London, Louise Ann (1992). British immigration control procedures and Jewish refugees 1933-1942 (Thesis). Queen Mary University of London.
London, Louise (1 June 1995). "Refugee Agencies and Their Work, 1933–39". The Journal of Holocaust Education. 4 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1080/17504902.1995.11102014. ISSN 1359-1371.
London, Louise (1 July 2000). "Whitehall and the Refugees: The 1930s and the 1990s". Patterns of Prejudice. 34 (3): 17–26. doi:10.1080/00313220008559144. ISSN 0031-322X. S2CID 144698546.