I think that source C is the most valuable source as evidence as what happened because source b was probably set up by the government to get people to agree with them that children should be evacuated this was important to the government because they don’t want children among the casualty list also they want to keep that generation because in ww1 they lost a generation of men. Source C is someone who was their giving their opinion on the matter this is valuable because someone is recalling the truth as they saw it happening before them.
Question 2
The extract comes from a book called Carries war it was written in 1973 by Nina Bowden. The book is a children’s novel it has been written to entertain children. This would affect the book by changing facts and figures because she needs to make it more interesting.
The context of this story is the evacuees Carrie and nick being taken back to there evacuation home by there carer Miss Evans before this scene they would have had been at the train station being issued to there cares. Miss Evans thinks that the evacuees Nick and Carrie are poor Carrie and Nick think that it’s funny and aren’t really bothered.
The characters think this because the children saw evacuation as a big adventure but the adults saw the children as smelly little things. The conditions some of the children come from were terrible the houses were terraced close together and very poor quality.
I think this source is not very reliable at all it is a story it is a story it is made to entertain little children problems would be that the facts may be different and could that the author doesn’t have a clue.
Question 3
The term great success could be translated in many different ways and to who the question was answered by, for instance the government would think that it was a success because they evacuated a lot of children out of the city centre so it saved a lot of lives but if you asked someone like the mother in source e she would of said it wasn’t because her house was urinated all over by evacuees.
Source b is a positive view it is a picture taken in September 1939 the time the war started it is probably was used for propaganda therefore the source would not be very reliable. Source d is a positive view to evacuation it is a picture issued by the government so it is most probably propaganda it was to show people how happy the children were it is difficult to make children look happy if there not so it is pretty reliable. Source g seems like a positive view we don’t know if Nina Bowden was there or not or if she’s done any research so it is not very reliable. Source h is a positive view it is an appeal from the government in 1940 for more homes in the country to adopt evacuees there is a picture with two children on it the boy is protecting the girl it is trying to make people guilty it is reliable to an extent to show that the government needed more families to take children in
Source a is a negative view it has no positive information in it its from a text book however it is not very reliable as we do not know where he got his information from. Source c is also a negative view it is an interview from 1988 50 years after the event so the memory of the teacher would be sketchy but it is quite reliable. Source e is a negative view it is an interview from 1988 it is a mother of a house that took in evacuees in dose not mention the age of the children or any other points that relate to why the children behaved this way this source is not very useful. Source f is another interview from 1988 it is an evacuee saying that the homes were sometimes worse for the evacuee than the person who took them in this source is quite reliable it also gives a different view to the homes they were evacuated to. Source I is a interview with a father who didn’t want to send his child away it is fairly reliable because it gives a point of view to the story of evacuation.
Some of the sources are not very good for instance the picture sources (B, D and G) were all photos taken by the government which make them propaganda and these pictures were all positive which makes only one other positive views which was a novel written for children which is not a very reliable source.
Most of the negative views are interviews which most of them are in 1988 this is 50 years after it happened this means that all these sources could have been made for an archive or something the problem with having a interview after 50 years are that some facts can easily be forgot or the interviewee could only remember the bad points or the interviewer could be asking questions about the bad points this makes these sources in all not that reliable.
In my opinion evacuation was a success because it saved a lot of lives it would be the same view of the government however there would be people who thought that it wasn’t a success because children were abused by farmers and stuff and that the homes were very posh that they moved too
