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HIST347: Private Lives and Public Policy: Evacuation, Memory and the Second World War

Special Subject (60 credits)

In September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, 1.5m children and adults were evacuated from the cities to the countryside in Britain in the ‘official’ Government scheme.  Another 2m were evacuated privately, to live with friends and relations.  How did children and parents cope with the long periods apart?  What happened if brothers and sisters were separated?  How did the children feel when they finally went home?  And what impact did the evacuation have on ideas about poverty, state intervention, the scope of health and welfare services, and British society more generally?  Taught by the leading authority on the evacuation, author of Churchill’s Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (Oxford University Press, 2010), this course makes particular use of primary sources – Departmental files; Parliamentary Papers; memoirs; social surveys; newspapers; and autobiographical accounts by former evacuees.

For further information on HIST347 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

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