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Who Will Take Our Children?
The Story of the Evacuation in Britain 1939–1945
- 238 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside – and how it affected social life during the war years. It uses hitherto unpublished material from the collections of the Children's Overseas Reception Board and the Mass Observation Archive.
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Index
- ‘AAA’ priority group 157
- ‘AA’ priority group 157
- Admiral Scheer 118
- Admiralty 87-8, 100, 112, 157, 163-4
- adoption 46-7, 138-9
- air journeys 162-3, 170, 171, 174
- air raids 26, 29, 53-7, 80-1, 110, 143, 151, 168
- effects on children 61-2
- Albatross, The 97
- Alchin, G. C. 165, 175
- Allied Powers 108
- ‘A-low’ priority group 158
- Alston, C. 116
- American Committee for the Care of European Children 137
- American Committee for the Evacuation of British Children 76
- American Fund 175
- ‘A-middle’ priority group 158
- Anchises, S.S. 117, 120
- Anderson, Sir John 1, 3
- Antonia 86, 87
- Arandora Star 100, 103
- Association of Secondary School Principals 177
- Australia
- arranging evacuation to 72, 126
- children evacuated to 169
- arrival of 100
- parents joining 140
- escrow accounts and 135
- guardianship laws and 91
- maintenance payments and 140
- national service in 141
- permanent settlement in 139
- Baldwin-Webb, Colonel J. 109-10
- Bassett Hound, The 102
- Batory, H.M.S. 97-100
- Battle of Britain 26, 53, 54, 103
- Bayano, S.S. 95-6
- Bemrose, Lucie 175
- Best, Ann 121
- Biddle, Eric 111
- billeting
- allowances...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- One The First Round
- Two Doing it Again
- Three The Ties that Bind
- Four Perils of the Deep
- Five Settled In
- Six Welcome the Traveller Home
- Epilogue
- Notes to the Text
- Bibliography
- Index