Evacuation in Britain.

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Mukesh Chauhan

The Second World War 1939-45

Evacuation in Britain 

1. Were evacuees excited by the idea of leaving home?

2. Which source is more useful, B or C?

I would say that the evacuees were more anxious than excited. A child leaving their home for the very first time, they don’t know where there going, who there going to be staying and they don’t know when there going to see there parents again. I don’t think a child can really be excited when put in this situation.

        Source B is a primary source and was taken at the time of evacuation. It does show the children that are being evacuated excited. But this picture could have been taken by the government as propaganda. So that the parents who haven’t sent their children off yet, won’t be worried and will be at more ease to see that there children are happy and excited.

        I would say that source B is unreliable because we don’t know whom the picture was taken by. Also a picture just shows one second in time, it could have been that the cameraman could have told the children to smile for the camera. Also there is a small amount of people in the picture compared to the thousands of children that were evacuated. You can’t trust the emotions shown in a picture.

        I would say that source C is more reliable because it is a primary source and also it is someone who was there at the time of the evacuation and was evacuated. Because she was there she knew the emotions that were going around. This interview took place in 1988 that makes this source a bit unreliable because she could be exaggerating and we don’t know how accurate her memory is.

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3. Why do you think Source D was taken?

I think that the picture taken in source D was for propaganda use, we do know that this picture was taken by the government. This picture has two effects on two different groups of people. Parents who had sent their children off to the countryside obviously must have been worried about their children. So I think that the government published this picture to ease the minds of the parents who sent their children off. This picture shows the children happy and it looks like they are being taken care ...

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