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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War.

On this episode of our Spanish Civil War interview series, I was joined by Dr. Ed Packer

from the Basque Children Association.

We discussed the story of the 4,000 children that were brought to Britain in 1937.

These children came to Britain at a time when their homes and their families were in serious danger,

and their story is a mixture of fascinating and also a little heartbreaking.

If you want to learn more about these children, you can go to baskchildren.org,

which I've included a link to in the show notes and on the podcast's website.

It's a really cool site with a lot of really fascinating

information about the experiences of these children, both during the Spanish Civil War,

their time in Britain, and then also afterwards.

Hello, everyone, and Hello everyone and welcome to the Spanish Civil War interview series.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Ed Packard, a trustee for the Basque Children Association.

The association was started in 2002 with the goals of remembrance and education about the 4,000 children who came to Britain from Spain in 1937. Dr. Packard, how's it going today? It's going quite well,

as well as could be expected in 2020. As a historian based in Britain, we're facing up to

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