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Miss Buxton
Coursework Evacuation in the Second World War.

For website research on Evacuation. I promised my GCSE Year 10 that I would post the following links:

1. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWevacuation.htm
Super! Very informative. Informs you about when and why evacuation started. Definitely worth a visit!

2. http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/homefront/...ain/default.htm
Super! Very informative. Informs you about when and why evacuation started. Definitely worth a visit!

3. http://www.battleofbritain.net/section-6/b.../blitz-p02.html
Super! A very good website… It is definitely worth a visit.
Informative site. Explains what you need to know about evacuation.

4. Ask Jeeves – evacuation of children. Search engine. Use key words from the following list, try keywords:
Evacuation. Children. Britain & the Home front. Second World War. World War II.

5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/hom...ac/evac_1.shtml
Excellent: Has a good section on why the government decided to evacuate and how? Well worth a visit!

6. http://www.ww2poster.co.uk/
posters used by the government during the war can be found here!

7. http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3952.php
An essay on evacuation.

8. http://home.freeuk.net/blitzensbase/evacuation.html
Super! A very good website… It is definitely worth a visit.
Informative site. Explains what you need to know about evacuation.

9. http://www.battleofbritain.net/section-1/a...appendix-8.html
Super! A very good website… It is definitely worth a visit.
Informative site.

10. http://www.holnet.org.uk/learningzone/lond...ewar/index.html
Super! Informative. Well worth a visit! Gives you excellent information.

11. http://www.iwm.org.uk/education/ww2children/index.htm
Imperial war museum site on children in the war/evacuation.
Miss Buxton
promised my new year 11 I would add more websites for research:

http://www.johndclare.net/wwii6b.htm excellent information about the Blitz and additional webs links on evacuation.

See also http://www.johndclare.net/wwii4.htm specifically on evacuation.
Miss Buxton
another interesting site:

North Shields 3rd May 1941...one of the worst World War II bombing disasters in the UK. 103 people are killed when a single bomb from a lone German raider scores a direct hit on a public air raid shelter in North Shields


http://www.westallswar.org.uk/
Miss Buxton
I have updated some of the links from the first post:

1 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWevacuation.htm Super! Very informative. Informs you about when and why evacuation started. Definitely worth a visit!


2 http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/homefront/evacuation/britain/default.htm ://http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/hom...in/default.htm ://http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/hom...in/default.htm ://http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/hom...in/default.htm Super! Very informative. Informs you about when and why evacuation started. Definitely worth a visit!


3 http://www.battleofbritain.net/0001.html Super! A very good website… It is definitely worth a visit. Informative site.
Explains what you need to know about evacuation. Scroll to the bottom of the
page and click on Document 5: The Evacuation of Women, Children and the Elderly


4 http://www.wargunner.co.uk/evacuee.htm Evacuee stories


5 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/bristol_evacuees_01.shtml ://http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/ww...uees_01.shtml ://http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/ww...uees_01.shtml ://http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/ww...uees_01.shtml (Bristol evacuees)


6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml The evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history.


7 http://www.ww2poster.co.uk/ posters used by the government during the war can be found here!


8 http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3952.php An essay on evacuation.


9 http://www.megspace.com/education/peterhayward/page2.html Super! A very good website… It is definitely worth a visit.
Informative site. Explains what you need to know about WHY the government decided to
evacuate children from the major cities.


10 http://www.holnet.org.uk/learningzone/lond...ewar/index.html
Super! Informative. Well worth a visit! Gives you excellent information.


11 http://www.iwm.org.uk/education/ww2children/index.htm Imperial war museum site on children in the war/evacuation.


12 http://www.geocities.com/raycrawley/ww11pt2 Evacuation was done in three waves 1939 - 1940 was the first, then there was a second wave in the autumn of 1940 as the blitz intensified and a third wave in 1944 with the arrival of the flying bombs.
Miss Buxton
Websites for Year 10 to research Evacuation of British School Children during the Second World War.

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QUOTE(Miss Buxton @ Mar 8 2005, 03:49 PM)
Websites for Year 10 to research Evacuation of British School Children during the Second World War.

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