Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Margaret Joyce
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The letters covering the period 16 Jun 1945 (19 days after the Joyces were captured) to 3 Jan 1946 (the day of Joyce's execution) range over a wide variety of subjects: philosophy, psychology, religion, and theology; English literature, metre and prosody; etymology and linguistics, and in partic...
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.
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.
Notebooks including one from 1942-1944 containing quotations, epigrams, and notes on language and metre in both Margaret and William Joyce’s hands. Another records an undated journey through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The third item is a 1930 diary used for accounts with the name...
Photocopies of William and Margaret Joyce documents held by the National Archives
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Includes: transcripts of newspaper articles concerning fake radio broadcasts; a memorandum on the exhumation of William Joyce’s body in 1976; official notice of the destruction of letters in Joyce’s possession after his execution; certificates of the award of the Kriegverdienstkreuz (Cross of Mer...
Typescript of a draft biography of William and Margaret Joyce
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Contains photocopies and transcripts of documents, photographs, letters, and diaries, many of the originals of which are to be found elsewhere within this William and Margaret Joyce collection. Some is written in the first person, by Margaret Joyce. It is described on p. 1 as ‘Margaret’s story’. ...