In Their Own Words: Letters from History
The National Archives
In Their Own Words: Letters from History - London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016 - 304p
Part I: Companions, Comrades, Lovers
1. Medieval family politics
2. A doomed queen
3. Lean meals for the Earl of Leicester
4. `Slaving during master's pleasure'
5. Britain versus the South Pole
6. Letter from India
7. Medals into munitions
8. An appeal from Pioneer Baggs
9. The Caravan Club
10. Children of the Overseas Reception Board
11. `Tell her my grief has no end'
Part II: Espionage and deception
12. Contents note continued: Digging for King and Country
13. Carl Lody, the spy in the Tower
14. From bank clerk to British spy
15. Operation Mincemeat
16. Animals and the War effort
17. The Gerson Secret Writing Case
18. The first female British spy
19. Double agents and the Cold War
Part III: Allies, diplomacy and foreign relations
20. Reburying the hatchet
21. Nationality and naturalisation
22. `Wonderful things'
23. The end of `peace in our time'
24. Operation Pled Piper: what to feed the children?
25. The most unsordid act in history
26. Nuclear weapons and the new world order
27. An invitation to the Queen
Part IV: Protest, Revolution and Rebellion
28. Braveheart
29. `Terrible blow this Parliament'
30. `Ye have not yet done as ye ought'
31. `... we may lie and die in a land of plenty ...'
32. Class antagonism onboard the Titanic
33. `Wrong and wicked punishment'
34. A letter of farewell to his mother
35. Animals in a cage
36. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
37. The League of Coloured Peoples
38. `Nkosi Sikelel' lAfrika'
39. Sexual Offences Act 1967
40. Shooting at the Berlin Wall
41. For `all women everywhere'
Part V: Scandals, Loopholes and Murder
42. Can a child be deemed an animal?
43. Copycat Rippers
44. A pattern emerges and a serial killer is uncovered
45. A storm in a whiskey tumbler
46. `Impassioned Obscenity'
47. Commander of the death camps
48. Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward
49. `The Kray twins done it'
50. `One for the pot'
Part VI: Cultural, Technological change
51. The cantankerous father of computing
52. Electric trains
53. `A flyer capable of carrying a man'
54. No women drivers allowed
55. Disappointed fiancees
56. The Introduction of the contraceptive pill Allowing
57. `A good thing to be laughed at'
58. Aliens in the Mendip Hills
9781844862856
Letters
Great Britain - Archival Resources
808.86 / THE
In Their Own Words: Letters from History - London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016 - 304p
Part I: Companions, Comrades, Lovers
1. Medieval family politics
2. A doomed queen
3. Lean meals for the Earl of Leicester
4. `Slaving during master's pleasure'
5. Britain versus the South Pole
6. Letter from India
7. Medals into munitions
8. An appeal from Pioneer Baggs
9. The Caravan Club
10. Children of the Overseas Reception Board
11. `Tell her my grief has no end'
Part II: Espionage and deception
12. Contents note continued: Digging for King and Country
13. Carl Lody, the spy in the Tower
14. From bank clerk to British spy
15. Operation Mincemeat
16. Animals and the War effort
17. The Gerson Secret Writing Case
18. The first female British spy
19. Double agents and the Cold War
Part III: Allies, diplomacy and foreign relations
20. Reburying the hatchet
21. Nationality and naturalisation
22. `Wonderful things'
23. The end of `peace in our time'
24. Operation Pled Piper: what to feed the children?
25. The most unsordid act in history
26. Nuclear weapons and the new world order
27. An invitation to the Queen
Part IV: Protest, Revolution and Rebellion
28. Braveheart
29. `Terrible blow this Parliament'
30. `Ye have not yet done as ye ought'
31. `... we may lie and die in a land of plenty ...'
32. Class antagonism onboard the Titanic
33. `Wrong and wicked punishment'
34. A letter of farewell to his mother
35. Animals in a cage
36. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
37. The League of Coloured Peoples
38. `Nkosi Sikelel' lAfrika'
39. Sexual Offences Act 1967
40. Shooting at the Berlin Wall
41. For `all women everywhere'
Part V: Scandals, Loopholes and Murder
42. Can a child be deemed an animal?
43. Copycat Rippers
44. A pattern emerges and a serial killer is uncovered
45. A storm in a whiskey tumbler
46. `Impassioned Obscenity'
47. Commander of the death camps
48. Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward
49. `The Kray twins done it'
50. `One for the pot'
Part VI: Cultural, Technological change
51. The cantankerous father of computing
52. Electric trains
53. `A flyer capable of carrying a man'
54. No women drivers allowed
55. Disappointed fiancees
56. The Introduction of the contraceptive pill Allowing
57. `A good thing to be laughed at'
58. Aliens in the Mendip Hills
9781844862856
Letters
Great Britain - Archival Resources
808.86 / THE