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portada Britain’s Wartime Evacuees (Hidden Histories)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
54
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9798175532242

Britain’s Wartime Evacuees (Hidden Histories)

Smith, Sidney (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

Britain’s Wartime Evacuees (Hidden Histories) - Smith, Sidney

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Synopsis "Britain’s Wartime Evacuees (Hidden Histories)"

When Britain sent its children away during the Second World War, it believed it was acting to save them. More than a million boys and girls were evacuated from cities judged vulnerable to bombing, labelled, placed on trains, and billeted with strangers in the countryside. For many, this was presented as a temporary measure, a short disruption before a safe return home. For thousands of children, that return never truly came. Britain’s Wartime Evacuees examines evacuation not as a nostalgic wartime episode, but as a profound social intervention whose consequences reached far beyond 1945. Drawing on welfare records, contemporary reports, and later testimony, this book explores what happened after the trains departed and the photographs faded. It reveals: How evacuation exposed children to neglect, exploitation, and abuse Why oversight was minimal and complaints were often ignored How repeated displacement fractured attachment and identity Why many children never returned home, or returned to families that no longer felt like their own How evacuation fed quietly into later institutional pathways, including approved schools and mental health care This is not a story of failure alone. Many children survived through resilience, adaptation, and silence. But resilience came at a cost, and that cost was unevenly borne. Part of the Hidden Histories series, Britain’s Wartime Evacuees places evacuation within the wider context of Britain’s welfare state, examining how emergency policy reshaped childhood, family life, and post-war society in ways that were rarely acknowledged at the time. Necessary. Disruptive. Enduring. This is the history of evacuation as it was lived, not just as it is remembered.

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