Source B is probably more reliable as it is an extract from an interview with a teacher who was present during the evacuations. This source appears to differ from source A as it gives a much more negative view of Evacuation, yet this may be because the source is an extract from an interview, and the interviewer may have asked for the negative point of the evacuation, and also since the piece is a memory is subject to the inaccuracies of this type of source.
Source C is a very difficult source to judge, the piece is from a novel published many years after the war, and therefore is a piece of fiction, yet it is most probably produced from Nina Bowden’s own experience’s and also from a substantial amount of research, and therefore may contain some very important pieces of information on this topic. The source highlights one of the failures of evacuation in that the foster parent believes the evacuees to be poor children, however I believe that the source gives a neutral view on evacuation and this is probably due to the fact that, the novel was published so long after the evacuations.
Source D is a piece of propaganda, produced by the government in order to gain more homes for the evacuees, therefore is going to present the evacuation as a success, since it is trying to gain more volunteers, yet the very existence of the source gives the view of evacuation as a failure as it demonstrates that there is not enough homes for the evacuees, and attempts to appeal to the nations sense of patriotism, The source however is very reliable as it is produced during evacuation and therefore the information it contains is true and reliable.
Source E highlights one of the major failures of evacuation which is quite simply the lack of information to which parents receive, the father in the source apparently has no idea of how his child would live in the country, as he believes that the people there would be unable to look after his son as they were ‘starving before the war’ therefore this source gives the impression of evacuation as a failure as his son had remained in the south end and therefore is in risk of the bombing.
Source F is a public information film that was produced to present evacuation as a success, and therefore does not show evacuation as it actually was, the piece is obviously staged as on the video one of the children has to be prompted.
In conclusion the main reason that the sources differ is the circumstances in which they were produced, and by whom they were produced, the pieces produced by someone who was not directly involved or a source that was to be used as a piece of propaganda shows the evacuations to be a success, whereas those produced by somebody directly involved with the evacuations seems to give a attitude of evacuations as a failure.