Just after 500,000 young people were evacuated from London, an Atlantic correspondent roamed the streets of the city, reporting on the weirdness of a metropolis suddenly missing a generation. In 1939, ...

Seventy years ago today, Britain and France (along with New Zealand and Australia) declared war on Germany, two days after Hitler invaded Poland. Molly Panter-Downes, writing from London, captured the ...

On the day war broke out, the 3rd September 1939, my father, traumitised by his experiences in the trenches in WW1 and convinced that bombs would fall on London immediately, packed me, my mother and ...

From this day onwards the population of London will be at an all-time high. The city has finally caught up with its 1939 peak of 8.6million. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact date this happened, but ...

This story was written by Angela's mother, Dobbie Dobinson: It was 1939, I was 19 years old and had made all the plans for my wedding in September. But at the end of August my fiancé Frank, who was a ...

Most of these records concern the local management of the evacuation scheme. Few contain the names of evacuees. Please also see the Emergency Committee minutes (or equivalent) of the place in which ...