Anon (no date given) Northallerton a town divided by influx of evacuees Black and White photograph. Darlington and Stockton Times 6th April, 2018. Retrieved from Newsquest Media Group website

Books for children

Mawson, Gillian (2014) Evacuees: Children’s Lives on the WW2 Homefront Pen & Sword books
Mawson, Gillian (2016) Britain’s Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Frontline books.
Pollard, Jan (2019) Evacuee – a real-life World War Two Scholastic
Summers, Julie (2012) When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees Simon & Schuster Ltd

Viewing / listening

Look and Read TV (2020) Spywatch – Evacuees – A BBC TV series. Retrieved from You Tube
BBC (2023) World War 2 Evacuation A selection of sound clips. Retrieved from ‘School Radio’ BBC Teach website
BBC (2023) Social Impact of WWII in Britain Retrieved from ‘bitesize’ BBC Children and Education website
BBC (2023) Life during wartime Retrieved from ‘bitesize’ BBC Children and Education website
BBC (2011) A Day in the Life Of A 10-Year-Old Evacuee Hands on History. Retrieved from BBC on You Tube website
BBC (2017) The Lives of WW2 Evacuees Hunting for History. Retrieved from BBC Teach on You Tube

Further information

Clouting, Laura (ed) (no date given) The Evacuated Children of the Second World War Retrieved from Imperial War Museum website
Anon (no gate given) The evacuation of children during the Second World War Retrieved from The History Press website

Selection of images from online image search. Retrieved from google images

[WARNING: Please ensure these materials are suitable for the students in your class. They are off-site and we can’t guarantee their quality or their suitability].