INFO NEEDED ON KIDS IN WW2

[willow2]

Can anyone suggest good web sites/books that could help my nephew with research into the life of London children during WW2.He particularly wants to find out about why some kids weren't evacuated/came back to London. Thought someone out here might know!

Goodnight Mister Tom is a wonderful fiction book that will give him an insight. The book is much better than the TV adaption.

Oh please don't mention the war! Am up to my eyes in it here too! Blitz, andersen shelters, women in the war - argh help!

How about the Wartime Memories Project

Bingo! Try this , I used this Google search.

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How old is he? Hope and Glory is an excellent film but not suitable for younger children...

willow2, have a look at The Red House website, they have several books of wartime experiences from a child'a point of view at the moment.

For anyone in London I thoroughly recommend a visit to the Imperial War Museum. It's fascinating, you can visit the 1940s house, look at planes, trudge through trenches and buy ration books. It's fab.

I got claustrophic in the Anderson shelter and the bomb shelter. Quite authentically frightening. The vid of Goodnight Mr Tom (if he didn't see it on TV) might be interesting for him.

aloha, we really want to go to that but aren't in London (a mere 240 miles away in fact). DS1 is studying Wilfred Owen as part of his English GCSE and all that trench stuff etc at the Imperial War Museum is something he desperately wants to see.

What makes it more frustrating is that there is an Imperial War Museum NORTH in Manchester but it doesn't have the exhibits from London. Snot fair.