In their own words, more letters from history, National Archives (Great Britain) ; read by Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker, 2
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In their own words, more letters from history, National Archives (Great Britain) ; read by Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker, 2
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eng
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history
Main title
In their own words
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National Archives (Great Britain) ; read by Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker
Sub title
more letters from history
Summary
A new collection of letters, notes and other documents from people who made history. Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction
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adult
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