This volume explores the organization and effects - personal, social and political - of the evacuation of children from Britain's metropolitan centres during World War II. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, and the return of the children to their homes. The book is an account of the various stages of evacuation during the six years of the war, and how on 2nd May, 1945, 115 trains carried 54,317 kids and mothers home. But how was it organized? Voluntary organizations (including many church bodies) tried, but state intervention became necessary. And what was it like for the foster parents, the mothers and the children themselves? Finally, evacuation stimulated a concern for social reform, taken up by the Church and Archbishop Temple in particular, resulting in much of the welfare provision which emerged in the post-war years.
- ISBN10 0745934226
- ISBN13 9780745934228
- Publish Date 26 January 1996 (first published 28 April 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 February 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lion Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English