Includes Margaret Joyce’s birth certificate; Gem’s from Shakespeare’s Comedies with diary entries for 4-6 June 1945 and a day-by-day list of events from 19 Nov 1945 to 3 Jan 1946 (the day of William Joyce’s execution); a handmade pamphlet containing epigrams and verse; a handmade pamphlet ‘The Gi...
Diaries, address books, and notebooks of Margaret Joyce
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Contains Margaret Joyce's diaries, including those kept while in prison in Brussels and Sennelager displaced persons camp post-World War Two, notebooks, and three diaries of Donald May, Margaret Joyce's second husband.
Includes a postcard from Margaret and William Joyce to ‘Mr and Mrs White’ [Margaret's parents, Ernest and Mabel White?], a poem addressed to ‘Bobbi’, a postcard from Hilde Puscz, a postcard from ‘Baby’, and correspondence with Ethel Scrimgeour.
Papers relating to A K Chesterton’s newspaper articles on William Joyce
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Contains correspondence relating to drafts of the articles and Chesterton seeking Margaret Joyce’s approval of them, the terms of publication, Lord Beaverbrook’s views on the articles and whether William Joyce warranted such coverage (they were to be published in the Daily Express, a Beaverbrook ...
Includes family and childhood photographs, photographs of Margaret and William Joyce in both England and Germany, photographs of friends in Germany, and photographs from Margaret Joyce’s post-war life. Also includes photographs of John Angus Macnab, Horst Dressler-Andress, Margaret F Bothamley, ...