Which source is the most useful as evidence about the start of childrens evacuation journey?

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Which source is the most useful as evidence about the start of children’s evacuation journey? Explain your answer using B and C and your own knowledge?

In this answer I am going to look at sources B, C and use of my own knowledge to see which is more useful as evidence about the start of the children’s evacuation journey.

Source B is a photograph taken in September 1939, showing evacuees walking to a station in London. It can be useful in some respects e.g. the way they dressed, what they were carrying and how they were grouped/lead by what would seem to be a female teacher, perhaps. I know from my own knowledge teachers would have been evacuated with the children at the time but there is no evidence to say that the group is a school. However this source is not very useful evidence about the start of children’s evacuation journey due to the staged atmosphere of the photo. Perhaps some children were glad to be evacuated, but maybe in this photo they had been told to wave and smile. Many children appear to be looking directly into the camera, which could indicate that it was staged for purposes such as propaganda, making the photo a fake environment.

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Source C, is an interview in 1988 with a teacher who remembers being evacuated with children from her school. This is a first hand account that describes the parting of the child and the mother in detail. This is useful because it opens your eyes to the sadness of leaving home. It’s probably more believable than the first one because it’s an eye witness account and the teacher has less reason to be biased. The teacher is unlikely to forget the evacuation process therefore making this source quite accurate. I can also see that this source is accurate ...

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