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Which source is the more useful as evidence about the start of the children's evacuation journey?  

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Study sources B and C Which source is the more useful as evidence about the start of the children's evacuation journey? Source B is a photograph taken in September 1939 of evacuees walking to the railway Station in London. It shows most of the children in good spirits with their teachers and with none of the children's parents in sight. The photographer who took this picture would have had to have the governments permission to take this picture which brings in the arguments of propaganda and censorship. If indeed it was part of the governments propaganda scheme then it would also be biased towards the government to get people thinking that evacuation was a success and the children are happy. Source C is an interview with a teacher almost 50 years after the start of evacuation. This would make the teacher over 70 years old at best. Therefore the teachers recollection of the...

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