The Basque Children in Britain tells how and why nearly 4,000 Basque children were evacuated from the terrors of the Spanish Civil War to the relative calm of a summer camp in the south of England. They arrived at Southampton Water on 22 May 1937, barely a month after the bombing of Guernica, which so influenced British public opinion that the British government had eventually agreed to the demands of the National Joint Committee for Spanish...
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