In Their Own Words: Letters from History by The National Archives · Audiobook preview

PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAED6aRgp8M In Their Own Words: Letters from History Authored by The National Archives Narrated by Arthur Smith, Daniel Mays, David Haig, Indira Varma, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Bathurst 0:00 Intro 0:03 Introduction 11:43 Companions, comrades, lovers 15:11 Outro #thenationalarchives #intheirownwordslettersfromhistory — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION Bloomsbury presents In Their Own Words: Letters From History, from the National Archives, read by Daniel Mays, Miriam Margolyes, David Haig, Indira Varma, Arthur Smith and Robert Bathurst The way we communicate has changed. Today, many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK’s official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegraphs will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king. The book includes letters from: Karl Marx, requesting UK citizenship, an anonymous writer purporting to be Jack the Ripper, Josef Kramer, the commandant of Bergen Belsen, from Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt requesting US support against Hitler, Clement Atlee to Harry S Truman following Hiroshima, the spies Burgess and Maclean, as well as the ‘real Charlotte Gray’ spy, Christine Granville, amongst others. Topics covered include: the Monteagle letter that warned about the Gunpowder plot, letters from the Wright brothers trying to get the War Office to fund their aeronautical research, a despatch on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Christine Keeler’s Russian/British love triangle that begat the Profumo affair, US disapproval of British trade with Cuba, a letter reporting on the first day of the trial of Nelson Mandela, the anonymous letter that framed the Krays. The book features approximately 80 letters, each with a 600–word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are around 140 images in the book: 80 of the letters themselves, and a further 60 supplementary images. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAED6aRgp8M Language: English Publisher: Bloomsbury GB Audio Published on: September 3, 2026 ISBN: 9781844868216 Duration: 7 hr, 22 min Genres: History / General, Literary Collections / Letters, History / Social History, Literary Collections / General, History / World