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’. ...
Includes: correspondence of Margaret Joyce and Macnab covering the period 1946-1964, partly copies, discussing William Joyce’s life, his trial, and their belief that the trial was unjust and Joyce’s conviction unsafe; extracts from William Joyce’s prison letters to Macnab; Macnab’s notes on the o...
Papers relating to Eduard Dietze and 'Mary of Arnhem'
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Includes photocopies of correspondence from 1946 to 1948 between Eduard Dietze, Controller of the North-West European Service controlling radio broadcasts directed to England, Ireland, and Holland between 1943 and 1945, and Eduard Rhein, founder of the magazine Horzu; an article entitled 'Wer wa...
Papers relating to Gisela Rost and Norman Baillie-Stewart
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Includes photocopies of Rost’s war time and post-war Arbeitsbuch (work book, a government issued document); references from her period as Norman Baillie-Stewart’s secretary at the German Foreign Ministry; post-war letters from Baillie-Stewart to Rost; correspondence of Rost and Michael Forman, t...
Contains a copy of a letter from Taviner to Oswald Mosley (Dec 1933), with a typescript; a letter from William Joyce to Taviner (Oct 1937) referring to Taviner’s letter to Mosley; a photocopy of a press cutting [1939] indicating Taviner’s intention to sue Mosley for slander; press cuttings from ...
Correspondence of Michael Forman and Richard Kupsch
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Letters, mostly from Kupsch to Forman, with a draft foreword by Kupsch for a proposed [but unpublished?] edition of William Joyce's Twilight Over England. Kupsch was recruited by Joyce to read the news on German radio, broadcasting to Great Britain during World War Two.
Miscellaneous papers from the William and Margaret Joyce papers
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Contains: a photocopy of a letter to 'Willie' and 'Mina'; a pocket calendar showing 4 March [1937] as polling day for the London County Council election for Shoreditch with a 'vote for [William] Joyce and [J A] Bailey' message [this was the first election contested by the British Union of Fascist...