Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
Bawden in 2003
Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.
Poster issued by the Ministry of Health in 1939 showing a carer (left, next to the soldiers) about to receive a child evacuee from its mother during the war
Children from London in 1940 about to catch a train in the city to evacuate them to the West Country.
Child evacuees from Bristol arriving at Brent in Devon in 1940