The Impact of Civilian Evacuation in the Second World War by Travis L. Crosby

Author:Travis L. Crosby [Crosby, Travis L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General
ISBN: 9781000458435
Google: v01FEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-21T02:47:08+00:00

Notes

M. Dorothy Brock, ‘An Unusual Happening: The Story of The Mary Datchelor Girls’ School in Evacuation, September 1939-May 1945’. (Privately printed, no date.)

See PRO, ED 134/73.

GLRO, D.O. 6 Wickham Lane School Log Book, ‘I’, 1933-1959.

Numbers are taken from the Association of Architects Survey, PRO ED 10/247.

PRO ED 134/19 contains a Board of Education memorandum setting out Berkshire school conditions district by district in December 1939. As late as April 1940, over 4000 Berkshire children were without full-time education.

A fear voiced in The Schoolmaster, 19 October 1939.

The London Teacher, 13 October 1939.

Ibid., 27 October 1939.

Ibid.

PRO ED 10/246, 21 December 1939.

PRO HLG 7/76, 11 October 1939. The report came from Nottingham.

Dorothy Isabel Martin, ‘Evacuation Justified’, a brochure, tells the story: a copy is in PRO ED 138/36.

The history of the school during evacuation can be pieced together from The Link, the school magazine. Copies are at the GLRO, EO/WAR/5/13.

PRO ED 134/256, 4 November 1939.

PRO ED 138/36.

The diary is in manuscript at the Imperial War Museum, LS. Box No. 77/50/1 Miss D.M. Hoyles.

The diary is in manuscript at the GLRO, EO/WAR/5/1.

See, for example, the work by the editor of the Times Educational Supplement, H.C. Dent, Education in Transition (London, 1944); and P.H.J.H. Gosden, Education in the Second World War (London, 1976).

PRO ED 136/205, 13 November 1939.

C.R. Rawson, ‘Pied Piper’. In typescript at the Greater London Council History Library, County Hall. By matching raw questionnaires with coded numbers, it is possible to identify both the schools surveyed and the official who made out the questionnaire.

PRO ED 138/34.

LCC Education Committee, ‘Standard of Attainment in London Elementary Schools’ (London, 1943).

GLRO, EO/WAR/1/83, 22 April 1940. Report of a conference between the LCC Education Office and the London Schoolmasters’ Association.

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