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[[File:Leave this to Us Sonny Art.IWMPST13854.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The UK [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Health]] advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the [[London Underground]].]]

The '''evacuation of civilians in Britain during the [[World War II|Second World War]]''' was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with [[aerial bombing of cities]] by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.

Under the name "'''Operation Pied Piper'''", the effort began on 1 September 1939 and officially relocated 1.5 million people. There were further waves of official evacuation and re-evacuation from the south and east coasts in June 1940, when a [[Operation Sealion|seaborne invasion]] was expected, and from affected cities after [[the Blitz]] began in September 1940. Official evacuations also took place from the UK to other parts of the [[British Empire]], and many non-official evacuations within and from the UK. Other mass movements of civilians included British citizens [[Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940|arriving from the Channel Islands]], and [[displaced person|displaced people]] arriving from continental Europe.

==Background==

[[File:She's in the Ranks too! Art.IWMPST8561.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Poster issued by the Ministry of Health in 1939 showing a carer (left, next to the soldiers) about to receive a child evacuee from its mother during the war]]
The Government Evacuation Scheme was developed during the summer of 1938 by the Anderson Committee and implemented by the [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Health]]. The country was divided into zones, classified as either "evacuation", "neutral", or "reception", with priority evacuees being moved from the major urban centres and [[billet]]ed on the available private housing in more rural areas. Each zone covered roughly a third of the population, although several urban areas later bombed had not been classified for evacuation.((citation needed|date=August 2022))

In early 1939, the reception areas compiled lists of available housing. Space was found for about 2,000 people, and the government also constructed camps that provided a few thousand additional spaces.((citation needed|date=August 2022))

The government began to publicise its plan through the local authorities in summer 1939. The government had overestimated demand: only half of all school-aged children were moved from the urban areas instead of the expected 80%. There was enormous regional variation: as few as 15% of the children were evacuated from some urban areas, while over 60% of children were evacuated from [[Manchester]], [[Belfast]] and [[Liverpool]]. The refusal of the central government to spend large sums on preparation also reduced the effectiveness of the plan.  Despite that, over 3,000,000 people were evacuated.((citation needed|date=August 2022))

==Evacuation==

[[File:The Evacuation Scheme in Britain 1940 HU36871.jpg|thumb|Children from London in 1940 about to catch a train in the city to evacuate them to the [[West Country]].]]
[[File:A group of children arrive at Brent station near Kingsbridge, Devon, after being evacuated from Bristol in 1940. D2592.jpg|thumb|Child evacuees from Bristol arriving at ((rws|Brent)) in Devon in 1940]]
[[File:Evacuees in Montgomeryshire (4346388594).jpg|thumb|Evacuees in [[Montgomeryshire]], 1939]]
Almost 3.75 million people were displaced, with around a third of the entire population experiencing some effects of the evacuation. In the first three days of official evacuation, 1.5 million people were moved: 827,000 children of school age; 524,000 mothers and young children (under 5); 13,000 pregnant women; 7,000 disabled people and over 103,000 teachers and other 'helpers'.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWevacuation.htm |title=Evacuation |publisher=Spartacus Educational |access-date=2010-04-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417080610/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWevacuation.htm |archive-date=17 April 2010))</ref> Children were parted from their parents.

Goods as well as people were evacuated; organisations or departments departed the cities. Art treasures were sent to distant storage: The [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] collection spent the war at the [[Manod]] Quarry near [[Ffestiniog]], [[North Wales]].<ref>((cite web |title=Hidden treasures |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/blaenau/pages/manodquarry.shtml |access-date=2012-08-12))</ref> The [[Bank of England]] moved to the small town of [[Overton, Hampshire]] and in 1939–40 moved 2,154 [[ton]]s of [[gold]] to the vaults of the [[Bank of Canada]] in [[Ottawa]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/press/1997/pr97-3.html |title=Bank of Canada Releases Interim Report 1997 – Press Releases – Publications and Research – Bank of Canada |publisher=[[Bank of Canada]] |access-date=2009-09-01))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/assets/documents/united_kingdom/boe.htm |title=Bank of England Archive: Records on Wartime Gold Transactions |publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |date=1997-11-17 |access-date=2009-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508115900/http://www.ushmm.org/assets/documents/united_kingdom/boe.htm |archive-date=8 May 2009))</ref> The [[BBC]] moved variety production to [[Bristol]] and [[Bedford]] and moved senior staff to [[Wood Norton, Worcestershire|Wood Norton]]<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/bbc-wood-norton/|title=BBC Wood Norton – Subterranea Britannica|website=www.subbrit.org.uk))</ref> near [[Evesham, Worcestershire]]. Many senior [[General Post Office|Post Office]] staff were relocated to [[Harrogate]]. Some private companies moved head offices or their most vital records to comparative safety away from major cities.

Government functions were also evacuated. Under "Plan Yellow",<ref name="Cox1998">((cite journal |last=Cox |first=Noel |year=1998 |title=The Continuity of Government in the face of enemy – the British experience, part 1 |journal=Forts and Works |volume=6 |pages=17–19))</ref><ref name="Cox1999">((cite journal |last=Cox |first=Noel |year=1999 |title=The Continuity of Government in the face of enemy attack – the British experience, part 2 |journal=Forts and Works |volume=7 |pages=11–14))</ref> some 23,000 civil servants and their paperwork were dispatched to available hotels in the better [[Seaside resort|coastal resorts]] and [[spa town]]s. Other hotels were requisitioned and emptied for a possible last-ditch "Black Move"<ref name="Cox1998"/><ref name="Cox1999"/> should [[London]] be destroyed or threatened by invasion. Under this plan, the nucleus of government would relocate to the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]]—the [[War Cabinet]] and ministers would move to [[Hindlip Hall]], Bevere House and [[Malvern College]] near [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] and [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] to [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref>((cite web |title=Where did the government go? |url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/government/ |access-date=2007-05-30))</ref> [[Winston Churchill]] was to relocate to [[Spetchley Park]] whilst King [[George VI]] and other members of the royal family would take up residence at [[Madresfield Court]] near [[Malvern, Worcestershire|Malvern]].<ref>((cite news |title=Madresfield Court: The King's redoubt if Hitler called |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8270238/Madresfield-Court-The-Kings-redoubt-if-Hitler-called.html |access-date=2012-08-12 |location=London |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |first=Neil |last=Tweedie |date=2011-01-19))</ref>

Some strained areas took the children into local schools by adopting the [[First World War]] expedient of "double shift education"—taking twice as long but also doubling the number taught. The movement of teachers also meant that almost a million children staying home had no source of education.((citation needed|date=March 2018))

===Evacuation centres===
[[File:Evacuees in the dining hall of Marchant's Hill School, Hindhead, Surrey, 1944. D21631.jpg|thumb|upright|Marchant's Hill School was an evacuation camp of wooden buildings built at [[Hindhead]] in Surrey. This is the dining hall in use in 1944.]]
In 1939 the British Government passed the Camps Act 1939<ref>((cite web |last=National Archives |title=Camps Act |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/22 |access-date=2012-07-17))</ref> which established the [[National Camps Corporation]] as a body to design and build residential camps for young people, which could provide opportunities for outdoor learning and also act as evacuation centres in the event of war. The architect [[T. S. Tait]] was responsible for the design of the buildings, which included accommodation for over 200 children and staff, recreational halls, wash blocks and a dining hall/kitchen complex. These camps were replicated in over thirty different rural locations around the country.

During the war years, they acted as safe refuges for city children. After the war the ownership of the sites was transferred to the local authorities. Over the years most of these sites have been lost, but the best preserved example today is [[Sayers Croft]] at [[Ewhurst, Surrey]]. The dining hall and kitchen complex is protected as a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade II listed building]] because of the importance of Tait's work, and because of the painted murals depicting the life of the many evacuees. Evacuation Centres were also set up by the Foster Parent Plan (FPP) for Children Affected by War, later renamed [[Plan International]].

One evacuated school was sponsored by the FPP in [[Knutsford]], [[Cheshire]], with each child being financially supported by an American citizen. One female pupil, named Paulette, was sponsored by Mrs [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref>((cite book |last1=Mawson |first1=Gillian |title=Britain's Wartime Evacuees |date=2016 |publisher=Frontline Books |isbn=978-1-84832-441-1 |pages=112))</ref>

===Overseas evacuation===
The [[Children's Overseas Reception Board]] (CORB) approved 24,000 children for evacuation overseas. Between March and September 1940, 1,532 children were evacuated to [[Canada]], mainly through the [[Pier 21]] immigration terminal; 577 to [[Australia]]; 353 to [[South Africa]] and 202 to [[New Zealand]]. The scheme was cancelled after the ((SS|City of Benares||2)) was torpedoed on 17 September 1940, killing 77 of the 90 CORB children aboard. However, in 1940 and 1941 about 14,000 children were evacuated privately to overseas relatives or foster families, including 6,000 to Canada and 5,000 to the United States.<ref>((cite book |last=Calder |first=Angus |year=1969 |title=The People's War: Britain 1939–45 |place=London |publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]] |page=139 |isbn=0-7126-5284-1))</ref>

[[BBC Radio|The BBC]] cooperated with radio networks in the host countries, to make ''[[Children Calling Home]]'', a programme which enabled the evacuated children and their parents to talk to each other, live on air.<ref name="Lawson">((cite news |last1=Lawson |first1=Mark |title=A commie witch-hunt, a live abdication and a military invasion of sport: 100 years of the BBC, part two |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/27/a-commie-witch-hunt-a-live-abdication-and-a-military-invasion-of-sport-100-years-of-the-bbc-part-two |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |author-link1=Mark Lawson |date=27 September 2022 ))</ref>

==Other evacuations==
[[File:Don't do it Mother Art.IWMPST3095.jpg|thumb|upright|Some parents who missed their children were tempted to bring them back from evacuation. This [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Health]] poster was published to discourage them.]]
A second evacuation effort started during and after the [[Battle of France|fall of France]]. From 13 to 18 June 1940, around 100,000 children were evacuated (and in many cases re-evacuated). Efforts were made to remove the vulnerable from coastal towns in [[Southern American English|southern]] and [[East of England|eastern England]] facing [[German-occupied Europe|German-controlled areas]]. By July, over 200,000 children had been moved; some towns in [[Kent]] and [[East Anglia]] evacuated over 40% of the population. Also, some 30,000 people arrived from [[continental Europe]] and from 20 to 24 June 25,000 people arrived from the [[German occupation of the Channel Islands|Channel Islands]].

As thousands of [[Guernsey]] school children arrived in [[northern England]] with their teachers, some were allowed to re-establish their schools in empty buildings. Guernsey's Forest School reopened in a church hall in [[Cheadle Hulme]], Cheshire where it operated until August 1945. As a result of the evacuation of so many Guernsey people to England, those returning no longer spoke the Guernsey language (Guernsiaise) after the war.<ref>((cite book |last1=Mawson |first1=Gillian |title=Guernsey Evacuees |date=2012 |publisher=History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-7019-1 |pages=90))</ref>

One of the speediest moves was accomplished by the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]] when it transferred its headquarters out of London. The company took over [[The Grove, Watford|The Grove]], on the estate of the [[George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon|Earl of Clarendon]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. This was made ready as offices and a number of huts built in the surrounding park. On 1 September 1939, it was decided to move in and the transfer was completed before war was declared two days later. Within three days some 3,000 of the staff were based at the new headquarters.<ref>((cite book |last=Williams |first=Michael |year=2013 |title=Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the War |place=New York and London |publisher=[[Random House|Preface Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-84809-314-0 |page=54))</ref>

[[File:The Civilian Evacuation Scheme during the Second World War HU36233.jpg|thumb|Evacuee children returning to [[Port of Southampton|Southampton]] from Australia aboard the [[Troopship|troop ship]] ((RMS|Andes|1939|2)) in September 1945. Note the wartime [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft gun]] mount in the background.]]
When [[the Blitz]] began in September 1940, there were clear grounds for evacuation. Free travel and billeting allowance were offered to those who made private arrangements. They were also given to children, the elderly, the disabled, pregnant women, the ill and those who had lost their homes (some 250,000 in the first six weeks in London). By the combination of all the state and private efforts, London's population was reduced by almost 25%.

As bombing affected more towns, "assisted private evacuation" was extended. However, not all evacuated children, mothers and teachers were safe in the areas to which they had been evacuated. Air raids, unexploded bombs, military vehicles and military minefields posed risks to the evacuees wherever they were posted in the UK.<ref>((cite book |last1=Mawson |first1=Gillian |title=Britain's Wartime Evacuees |date=2016 |publisher=Frontline Books |isbn=978-1-84832-441-1 |pages=117))</ref>

London proved resilient to bombing despite the heavy bombardment. The destruction in the smaller towns was more likely to provoke panic and spontaneous evacuations. The number of official evacuees rose to a peak of 1.37 million by February 1941. By September, it stood at just over one million. By the end of 1943, there were just 350,000 people officially billeted. Still, the [[V-1 flying bomb]] attacks from June 1944 provoked another significant exodus from London. Up to 1.5 million people left by September – only 20% were "official" evacuees.

From September 1944, the evacuation process was officially halted and reversed for most areas except for London and the east coast. Returning to London was not officially approved until June 1945. In March 1946, the billeting scheme was ended, with 38,000 people still without homes.

==Traumatic effect on children==
Even at the time, there were some that had grave concerns about the psychological effect on especially the younger children, and wondered whether they would be better off taking the risks with their parents.<ref>((cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Amy B |title=Second World War|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/family-separation-second-world-war-us-immigration-evacuation-children-a8407581.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The Independent |date=20 June 2018))</ref><ref>((cite news |last1=Chancellor |first1=Alexander |title=It's time to explode the myth that all children evacuated from the blitz were well treated |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/sep/03/alexander-chancellor-wartime-evacuees |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=3 September 2009))</ref>

In the early 2000s a number of evacuees came forward to clarify the many "bad sides" of the evacuation.<ref>((cite web |last1=Preast |first1=David |title=Evacuees in World War Two - the True Story |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 April 2020))</ref><ref>((cite news |title=Operation Pied Piper – Six Amazing Facts About Britain's Wartime Evacuees |url=https://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/03/31/operation-pied-piper-six-amazing-facts-about-britains-wartime-evacuees/ |access-date=10 April 2020 |date=31 March 2017))</ref>

==Cultural impact==
[[File:A group of young evacuees sit on a hay cart outside Chapel Cleeve Nursery in Washford, Somerset, 1942. D9209.jpg|thumb|upright|Evacuee children on a haycart at [[Old Cleeve|Chapel Cleeve]], Somerset in 1942]]
[[File:All Saints church, Sudbury - evacuees' gratitude stained glass window by Michael Stokes.jpg|thumb|upright|This stained glass window by Michael Stokes, in [[Sudbury, Derbyshire|All Saints church, Sudbury, Derbyshire]], was a gift from former Manchester evacuees to the community where they were looked after during the war]]
The movement of urban children of all [[class system|classes]] to unfamiliar rural locations, without their parents, had a major impact. The Evacuees Reunion Association was formed with the support of the [[Imperial War Museum]]. It provides opportunities for former evacuees to contribute and share evacuation experiences and for researchers to request information such as the long-term effects of evacuation upon children.

The evacuation spawned a whole literature of children's and young adult fiction. The convenience of the setting for the writer is clear, allowing the child heroes to have adventures in a strange, new world. Some of the authors, like [[Nina Bawden]], had themselves experienced evacuation.

*[[Kitty Barne]]'s [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]]-winning ''[[Visitors from London]]'' (1940) is an early novel about evacuees, set in [[Sussex]].
*In [[Richmal Crompton]]'s ''William and the Evacuees'' (1940), [[William Brown (fictional boy)|William Brown]] is envious of the special treats the evacuees receive and organizes an 'evacuation' of the village children.
*In [[C. S. Lewis]]'s novel ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' (1950) the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to the stately manor that contains the wardrobe portal to [[Narnia (world)|Narnia]]. It is never stated in which part of England the house was situated.
*[[William Golding]]'s novel ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' (1954) is about a planeful of evacuating children who are shot down over a tropical island.
*[[Michael Bond]]'s beloved children's book character ''[[Paddington Bear]]'' (1958) is an anthropomorphised orphan bear, who – having stowed away from "Darkest [[Peru]]" – is found by a family at [[London Paddington station|Paddington railway station in London]], sitting on his suitcase with a note attached to his coat that reads, "Please look after this bear. Thank you." Bond has said that his memories of [[newsreel]]s showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during WWII, with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases, prompted him to do the same for [[Paddington Bear|Paddington]].<ref>((cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-16964890 |last=Midgley |first=Emma |title=Paddington Bear 'inspired by evacuees' says author Bond |publisher=[[BBC Online]] |date=13 February 2012 |access-date=28 April 2015))</ref>
*[[Nina Bawden]]'s novel ''[[Carrie's War]]'' (1973) is about Carrie and Nick, who encounter different religions when they are evacuated to [[Wales]].
*[[Noel Streatfeild]]'s novel ''When the Sirens Wailed'' (1974) is about three evacuees and covers issues like rations for evacuees, relationship between evacuees and townspeople, and the problems encountered by those who stayed behind.
*[[Michael Morpurgo]]'s novel ''Friend or Foe'' (1977) is about two evacuees who befriend the crew of a crashed German bomber hiding on [[Dartmoor]].
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s novel ''[[A Tale of Time City]]'' (1987) begins with the main character, Vivian, being evacuated from London. Jones herself was evacuated to Wales in 1939.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.suberic.net/dwj/bio.html |title=Chrestomanci Castle: Something About the author |publisher=Diana Wynne Jones |access-date=2009-09-01))</ref>
*[[Michelle Magorian]]'s novel, ''[[Goodnight Mister Tom]]'' (1981), tells the story of the evacuee Willie Beech and elderly Thomas Oakley with whom he is billeted. It was made into a TV film starring [[John Thaw]] as Mr Tom.
*In the Disney sequel to ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'', ''[[Return to Neverland]]'', [[Wendy Darling]]'s children Jane and Daniel are to prepare for evacuation before Jane is kidnapped by Captain Hook. The introduction to the movie details about the evacuation order and how children need Peter Pan now more than ever.
*[[Kit Pearson]]'s ''Guests of War'' trilogy, beginning with ''[[The Sky Is Falling (Pearson novel)|The Sky Is Falling]]'' (1989), chronicles the story of ten-year-old Norah Stoakes and her younger brother Gavin, who are evacuated to [[Toronto]].
*In the 2015 videogame ''[[We Happy Few]]'', set in an alternate reality where Germany successfully invaded and occupied Britain during the war, the main character Arthur Hastings betrays his [[Autism spectrum|autistic]] brother Percival giving him up to the [[Collaborationism|collaborationist]] authorities in order to be sent to Germany.

[[File:London Evacuees in Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1940 D1050.jpg|thumb|Boys from [[Rotherhithe Nautical School]] in [[Bermondsey]] doing boat drill at [[Ferryside]] in [[Carmarthenshire]] in 1940]]
Novels for adults featuring evacuation and evacuees are:

*''[[Put Out More Flags]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]], in which Waugh's anti-hero Basil Seal uses his position as Billeting Officer to extort bribes (for moving disruptive children elsewhere) from hapless and reluctant hosts.
*[[Noel Streatfeild]]'s adult novel ''Saplings'' (1945). 
*[[Connie Willis]]'s two-volume novel ''[[Blackout/All Clear]]'' (2010) has extensive chapters about a [[time travel]]ling character from the future, a historian named Merope (she takes on the persona of Eileen O'Reilly, an Irish maid), who intends to study the impact of evacuation on the children. When she becomes stranded in the past, she eventually adopts two bratty children to raise herself.

Non-fiction:

*''Out of Harm's Way'' by [[Jessica Mann]] (Headline Publishers 2005) tells the story of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain during the Second World War.
*In [[Pam Hobbs]]'s memoir ''Don't Forget to Write: the true story of an evacuee and her family'' (2009), a 10-year-old is evacuated in 1940 from [[Leigh-on-Sea]], [[Essex]] to [[Derbyshire]], where she lives with a number of families and encounters a range of receptions from love to outright hostility – and enormous cultural differences.
*Alan Derek Clifton published his memories of being evacuated to [[Northern Rhodesia]] in 1940 in the book entitled, ''From Cockney to Colonial (And Back Again)'' (2010).
*[[Ben Wicks]]'s ''No Time to Wave Goodbye'' and ''The Day They Took the Children''.
*''Britain's Wartime Evacuees'' by Gillian Mawson (Pen and Sword, 2016) shares the personal testimony of child and adult evacuees in Britain during the Second World War.
*''Guernsey Evacuees'' by Gillian Mawson (History Press, 2012) shares the personal testimony of Guernsey evacuees in Britain during the Second World War.

[[File:London Evacuees in Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1940 D1041.jpg|thumb|Girls from Notre Dame High School in [[Battersea]], south London bathing in the [[River Towy]] at [[Llandovery]], Carmarthenshire in 1940]]
Other:

*In the [[20th Century Fox]] movie ''[[On the Sunny Side (1942 film)|On the Sunny Side]]'' (1942), [[Roddy McDowall]] portrays an evacuated English boy who comes to live with an American family in [[Ohio]].
*[[Stephen Poliakoff]]'s television drama ''[[Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (2001) includes a lengthy flashback of two evacuated sisters who leave the family they are sent to and live as wild children in the woods for the remainder of the war.
*In the movie ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'' (1971), the children are evacuated to  Pepperinge Eye near the [[Dorset]] coast where they are taken in by a good witch-in-training.
*In the movie ''[[The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death]]'' (2014), the major plot of the film involves a headmistress and a teacher evacuating a group of children out of London. One of the children lost his parents in a Blitz.

==See also==
* [[London in World War II]]
* [[Battle of Britain]]
* [[British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War]]
* [[Trekking during the Blitz]]
* [[Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II]]
* [[Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II]]
* [[Evacuation in the Soviet Union]]
* [[Kindertransport]]
* [[Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940]]
* [[Q Camp]]: experimental children's community

==References==
((Reflist|33em))

==Further reading==
* Baumel, Judith Tydor. "Twice a Refugee: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain during Evacuation, 1939--1943" ''Jewish Social Studies'' (1983) 45#2 pp175–184. 
* Crosby, Travis L. ''Impact of Civilian Evacuation in the Second World War'' (1986) 176p.
* Jackson, Carlton. ''Who Will Take Our Children?'' (1985), 217p.
*((cite book |last=Johnson |first=Derek E |year=1985 |title=Exodus of Children: Story of the Evacuation, 1939–45 |place=Clacton-on-Sea |publisher=Pennyfarthing Publications |isbn=0-9500031-1-5))
* Gartner, Niko. "Administering'Operation Pied Piper'-how the London County Council prepared for the evacuation of its schoolchildren 1938-1939." ''Journal of Educational Administration & History'' 42#1 (2010): 17–32.
* Kushner, Tony."Horns and Dilemmas: Jewish Evacuees in Britain during the Second World War." ''Immigrants & Minorities'' (1988) 7#3 pp 273–291. 
* Macnicol, John. "The effect of the evacuation of schoolchildren on official attitudes to state intervention." in Harold L. Smith, ed., ''War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War'' (1986): 3-31.
* Mawson, Gillian. ''Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuation Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There.'': 117–130. Pen and Sword. December 2016 ((ISBN|1-84832-441-3)) 

*Parsons Martin (ed) ''Children. The Invisible Victims of War''. DSM Oct 2008 ((ISBN|0-9547229-4-9))
*Parsons Martin ''War Child. Children Caught in Conflict''. (History Press, 2008) ((ISBN|978-0-7524-4293-8))
*Parsons Martin  ''Manchester Evacuation. The Exception to the Rule''. DSM publishing. April 2004 ((ISBN|0-9547229-0-6)) 
*Parsons Martin '' 'I’ll take that one!’  Dispelling the Myths of Civilian Evacuation in the UK during World War Two.'' 290pp (Beckett Karlson, 1998). ((ISBN|1-901292-03-7)). 
*Parsons Martin  ''Waiting to go home!'' (Beckett Karlson, 1999). ((ISBN|0-9536516-0-6))
*Parsons M & Starns P.  ''The Evacuation. The true Story'' (1999, DSM & BBC). ((ISBN|0-9536516-1-4))
* Preston, A. M. '"The Evacuation of Schoolchildren from Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1939-1942: An Assessment of the Factors which Influenced the Nature of Educational Provision in Newcastle and its Reception Areas," ''History of Education'' (1989) 18#3 pp 231–241. 11p.
* [[Titmuss, Richard]]. ''Problems of Social Policy''  (1950) famous social science study of the evacuation. [https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-Civil-Social/index.html online free]
* Wicks, Ben. ''No Time to Wave Goodbye'' (1989), 240p.

==External links==
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* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml BBC]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a4099241.shtml BBC People's War – Yvonne Devereux 'Evacuated to Canada']
* [http://www.johndclare.net/wwii4_evacuees_longmate.htm How We Lived Then – extract from Norman Longmate book]
* [http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/standrews00/gov_evac.htm CLUTCH Club]
* [http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children_and_world_war_two.htm History Learning Site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080227140049/http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~wcl8/sacll/lectures/transcripts/Evacuees.pdf Lecture transcript on Operation Pied Piper, 31 May 2006]
* [http://www.evacuees.org.uk/ The Evacuees Reunion Association]
* [http://nfb.ca/film/children_from_overseas/ Watch the documentary ''Children from Overseas'' online]
* [http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/operation-pied-piper-the-evacuation-of-english-children-during-world-war-ii/ Operation Pied Piper]

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