In Osnabrück, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II prompted a large-scale evacuation, directly impacting thousands of citizens. The operation ...

Explore what pupils know and think about refugees and kindness, with a speech by a teenage Queen Elizabeth II to evacuees in World War II During the Second World War (1939 to 1945) fears cities and ...

To avoid the chaos of a mass migration of people from urban centres in the event of war, the government drew up plans for an official evacuation ... course of the Second World War.

Teaching resources for Key Stage 2 History - World War Two - with video clips using material from the BBC archive. Topics include evacuation, the Blitz, rationing, songs, news reports, speeches ...