"Evacuation was a great success." Discuss
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HISTORY COURSEWORK LAURENCE WARING QUESTION 3 "Evacuation was a great success." In this answer I will be exploring sources, which take different viewpoints towards this quote. I will be taking the point of view from the children, the parents, the government, and the host families. For this question I will be using all the sources and information given to me, and my own general knowledge. Source A is an interpretation of the relationships of the children and there host families. It was written by a historian called David Taylor in 1988 for British schools in a textbook called mastering economic and social history. The source is secondary however the historian would research the topic a great deal before putting pen to paper. The source focuses on the less glamorous side of evacuation; it says, "There were reports of children fowling in gardens, hair crawling with lice and bed wetting." This is...

