Abstract Located in Birtley, County Durham, the gated community of Elisabethville housed several thousand Belgians from 1916 until the aftermath of the Great War. Most residents were conscripted Belgian soldiers who constituted the workforce at the nearby National Projectile Factory. This article focuses on the complex relationship between the ‘Birtley Belgians’ and their host population. It thus covers issues such as wartime charity, Anglo-Belgian leisure-time interactions as well as debates about the exiles’ moral and socio-economic impact. Moreover, the case of Elisabethville sheds light on several wider issues, from war-related displacement to the intersections between home front and battle front.

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比利时流亡者、英国人和第一次世界大战：伊丽莎白维尔的伯特利比利时人

摘要 Elisabethville 封闭式社区位于达勒姆郡的伯特利，从 1916 年到第一次世界大战结束，这里居住着数千名比利时人。大多数居民是被征召入伍的比利时士兵，他们组成了附近国家弹丸厂的劳动力。本文重点介绍“比特利比利时人”与其寄宿人口之间的复杂关系。因此，它涵盖了战时慈善、英比休闲互动以及关于流亡者的道德和社会经济影响的辩论等问题。此外，伊丽莎白维尔的案例揭示了几个更广泛的问题，从与战争有关的流离失所到国内战线之间的交叉点。