“Who Will Take Our Children” draws on hitherto unpublished material from the Children’s Overseas Reception Board, which only became available for research in 1980, as well as the unique Tom Harrison Mass Observation Archive at Sussex University which has specialised in recording interviews with ex- Vacs. The rsuslt is a scholarly, lucid and riveting account of the evacuation and how it affected British social life during the war years.

Evacuation, evacuees