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Havens across the Sea

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Alumni Weekend
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Local historian Ann Spokes Symonds gives a talk on the Oxford children and mothers who were evacuated to Canada and the USA in July 1941.

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Series
Alumni Weekend
People
Ann Spokes Symonds
Keywords
ww2
alumni
evacuation
oxford
world war 2
history
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 12/11/2009
Duration: 00:58:40

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