Reading Events

The Children's War: evacuees in the countryside 1939-45

Date : 08 September 2009 - 22 December 2009

Time : Tues-Fri 9am to 5pm and weekends 2-4:30pm

Location : Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading. Rg1 5EX

Contact : MERL

0118 378 8660

merlevents@reading.ac.uk

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In September 1939, 1.5 million evacuees were taken from the major cities in Britain to areas of safety to protect them from the expected air attacks. Many of them arrived in rural communities where the way of life was very different from that which they had left. This exhibition looks at the impact these children had on the countryside, and how much the rural life affected their own lives, both at the time and in the future.