Printed
Nottingham evacuation scheme leaflet.
Primary
- Circulars to Head Teachers, 1939 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CC4 10/4 15)
- List of children evacuated from Southend on Sea eligible for free milk, June 1940 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CC4 10/4/16)
- List of children evacuated from Great Yarmouth, May 1940 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CC4 10/4/17)
- Notes on evacuation, November 1939 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CC1/432)
- Minutes of Emergency Committee, April 1939 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CC3 12/30/2, pp 22, 25 and 26)
- Emergency Committee Meetings (on Feeding Centres, Air Raid Shelters, Rest Centres etc), 1941-2 (Nottinghamshire Archives: CA TC 1/2/80)
- Official War Notices, Nottinghamshire Archives (DD TS 14/6/1-40)
- Nottingham Guardian 23.8.44 –
Newspapers are a useful source. For example:
- Nottingham Evening Post, 11 July 1939 and 30 August 1939 (list of places where one can shelter)
- Nottingham Guardian, 23 August 1944 (another 666 evacuees arrived at Victoria Station)
- Newark Advertiser 2 June 1965 and 9 June 1995 (articles relating to evacuees in Newark)
A selection of evacuees' memories are available on the BBC’s WW2 People’s Memories website:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1146/index_4.shtml
‘WW2 Evacuees in Thurgarton’ (accessible at: www.thurgartonhistory.co.uk/2010/01/ww2-evacuees-in-thurgarton/)
Secondary
Brooks, C. J., When Will I See You Again? The Story of East Coast Evacuees, Lowestoft: Rushmere Publishing, 1991, 192 p. Illustrations. Nottinghamshire, passim.
Franks, A., Nottinghamshire wartime tales. Personal Memories from the Second World War, Keyworth: Reflections of a Bygone Age, 2005, 96 p. Illustrations.
Fuller, S. E., 'My Own Evacuee', Lenton Listener, no. 30, 1984, [3]-[4]. Illustrations. Evacuation from London to Nottingham.
Hammond, R., The experience of evacuation in wartime Nottinghamshire, Nottingham: Nottingham Living History Archive, 2000, 68 p. Illustrations, bibliography.
Hammond, R., Evacuation in Nottinghamshire. Transcripts of original oral history interviews, Nottingham: Nottinghamshire Living History Archive, 2000, -.
Labbett, M., 'Evacuated to Lenton', Lenton Times: the magazine of Lenton Local History Society, No. 27, February 2009, 24-25. Recollections of a London evacuee. Illustrations.
Mallory, R., Newark in the Second World War, [West Bridgford]: Nottinghamshire County Council and Newark and Sherwood District Council, 1995 (pages 16-17 cover evacuees to Newark)