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_aThe National Archives _914723 |
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245 | _aIn Their Own Words: Letters from History | ||
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_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc _c2016 _aLondon |
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500 | _aPart 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 | ||
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