In Their Own Words 2

More letters from history

The National Archives (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2018
Conway (Verlag)
9781844865222 (ISBN)

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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.

The book 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 book features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are 150 images in the book: 55 of the letters themselves, and a further 95 supplementary images.

This title is authored by a group of specialist archivists at The National Archives, each of whom has a particular area of expertise in a different aspect of the past.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	80 facsimile letters and more than 120 illustrations and other supporting documents
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 260 mm
Gewicht	1340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781844865222 / 9781844865222
Zustand	Neuware