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Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain by John Welshman (view source)
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|title=Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain
|author=John Welshman
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|pages=288
|publisher=OUP
|date=May 2010
|isbn=978-0199574414
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Further reading suggestion: For further reading on this period in history you might also like [[The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies]] and [[Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing]].
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|comment=There are those of us that are old and will appreciate the memories that 'John Welshman' brings back as we remember WW2. There are those of middle years, who have at last had the time to study almost forgotten events told to them by their older relatives. Now the young can enjoy,and if necessary, study ,a great read, John Welshman has skilfully combined many first hand accounts by those involved in the 1940s. With the educational, and political organisation of teachers, the many volunteers, from the local councillors,and to those actually taking the great numbers of town children into their usually unprepared ,country households.
There were of course the good ,the bad, and the indifferent. Many children came with a history of great poverty, moderate education,poor clothes, and inadequate footwear. And very many with 'nits' and other health problems. Some country households were technically very poor, but on occasions could serve up pheasant, and regularly wood pigeon or rabbit.Together with home grown vegetables. [ I have direct personal experience of eating at my grandmothers, more a feast than a meal,and she a farmworker's wife.].
For some children it was the best of times, returning to their city homes grown up, mature, and skilled, but often distant from their real parents. Others were badly treated, and hated the whole experience .Being both lonely and puzzled at being expected to undertake hard boring work.
But though the war was a nasty viscous period, changing everyone forever,we must ask. Did it speed up the post war changes,eventually leading to the Butler Education Act, and the National Health Service? We must draw our own conclusions. Great thanks however will go to John Welshman for providing new,very readable evidence,of the great wartime, mainly successful, operation of 'evacuation'!
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