ABSTRACT

This article considers the wartime evacuation of English public schools as a result of enemy bombing as well as the commandeering of school buildings for government and military purposes. It looks at the way evacuation was privately organised by public school authorities often relying on the ‘old school tie’, while also taking financial considerations into account in the case of schools faced with sharp declines in their numbers in the 1930s context. The article also focuses on the way evacuation challenged public schools’ sense of elective belonging and corporate identity while making it possible to establish new contacts with state schools and refugees from continental Europe. It finally assesses the legacy of public schools’ evacuation journeys as the institutions returned to their historic sites at the end of the war, hoping to preserve the more practical spirit of the evacuation years, at the time of the Butler Education Act and the building of the Welfare State.

摘要

本文考虑了由于敌方轰炸以及政府和军事目的对学校建筑物的指挥而导致的英国公立学校的战时疏散。它考察了公立学校当局通常依靠“老派系”私下组织疏散的方式，同时还考虑到在1930年代学校数量急剧下降的学校中的财务考虑。本文还着重讨论了撤离挑战公立学校的选民归属感和公司形象的方式，同时使与欧洲大陆的公立学校和难民建立新的联系成为可能。最终，评估了战后各机构返回其历史遗迹时公立学校撤离旅程的遗留情况，