1 Printable worksheet 2 Read correspondence of wartime evacuees and select the hyperlinks. These reveal a pop-up window with more information about the reality behind the words. All the letters are available on-screen in the original manuscript plus a transcript. This database contains 4 different types of sources from photographs to posters. Using Sources Being an historian is like being a detective.
Historical sources are the clues to fitting a story together.
Using any of these sources, ask your pupils to suggest other questions that they would like to know the answers to. It was made for young children 2. People thought they looked like Mickey Mouse 1. For example, one of the best sources for finding out about wartime evacuation is old school registers. They can tell us how many evacuees entered country schools, how long they stayed for and how often they actually went to school.