John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His publications include Underclass: a history of the excluded since 1880 and Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), also published by Oxford University Press.
As thorough and yet compassionate an account as the disaster is ever likely to have. * Open Letters Monthly *