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UK Creative Leaders: Leanne Wright and Robbie Walters, artists/designers - Image © Tim Hall
Yugoslavian, Czechoslovakian and Swedish local government officials on a study tour to the UK, 1947
Europe
Europe has always been an important area for our work since our foundation in 1934.  Read more about our work in Europe on this page, and find out when we opened in each country.
When did we open in…?
Find out when we opened in each country in the region, from Albania to Italy and from Latvia to Yugoslavia
World Map, kept in British Council office, Nigeria 1951
 Setting up in Portugal
We set up our first British Institute in Europe in Portugal in 1938.  Read more about about how this happened.
Portugal - photographer Andrew Huggett
Allied Centres
During the Second World War, we were forced to suspend our activities in most countries of mainland Europe.  But the arrival in the UK of huge numbers of refugees and military personnel from these countries meant there was work to do closer to home.  Read more about this work.
Allied Centre, Liverpool,1941
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