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Add MS 89481
- Record Id:
- 032-004250169
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004250169
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142875653.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89481
- Title:
- Papers of William and Margaret Joyce
- Scope & Content:
-
Includes letters sent by William Joyce to Margaret from prison while awaiting trial and, ultimately, execution; papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce; personal papers, photographs, and diaries (including those written in prison and displaced persons camp) of Margaret Joyce; photocopies of papers relating to the Joyces held by the National Archives; a typescript of an extensive draft biography of the Joyces; and papers relating to associates of the Joyces such as Eduard Dietze, Angus Macnab, and Norman Baillie-Stewart.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004250169", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 89481: Papers of William and Margaret Joyce" },{ "id" : "036-004250302", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/1: Letters sent from prison by William Joyce" },{ "id" : "040-004250303", "parent" : "036-004250302", "text" : "Add MS 89481/1/1: Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Margaret Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250308", "parent" : "036-004250302", "text" : "Add MS 89481/1/2: Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Ethel Scrimgeour" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-004250337", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/2: Papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce" },{ "id" : "040-004250346", "parent" : "036-004250337", "text" : "Add MS 89481/2/1: Correspondence of Margaret Joyce and J A Cole" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250348", "parent" : "036-004250337", "text" : "Add MS 89481/2/2: Extracts from William Joyce’s prison letters to Margaret Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250351", "parent" : "036-004250337", "text" : "Add MS 89481/2/3: Miscellaneous papers relating to J A Cole’s biography of William Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-004250369", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3: Papers of Margaret Joyce" },{ "id" : "040-004250370", "parent" : "036-004250369", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/1: Correspondence of Margaret Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250373", "parent" : "036-004250369", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/2: Personal papers of Margaret Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-004250374", "parent" : "036-004250369", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/3-4: Margaret Joyce's photographs" },{ "id" : "040-004250397", "parent" : "037-004250374", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/3: Margaret Joyce's photographs I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250398", "parent" : "037-004250374", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/4: Margaret Joyce's photographs II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-004250406", "parent" : "036-004250369", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/5-13: Diaries, address books, and notebooks of Margaret Joyce" },{ "id" : "040-004250407", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/5: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1945-1946" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250782", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/6: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1949, 1951-1953" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250783", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/7: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1954-1957" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250784", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/8: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1958-1959, 1961-1962" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250786", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/9: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1963-1965" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250787", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/10: Margaret Joyce's diaries 1966-1967" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250788", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/11: Margaret Joyce's notebooks" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250789", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/12: Margaret Joyce's address books" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250790", "parent" : "037-004250406", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/13: Diaries of Donald May" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250793", "parent" : "036-004250369", "text" : "Add MS 89481/3/14: Papers relating to A K Chesterton’s newspaper articles on William Joyce" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250408", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/4: Photocopies of William and Margaret Joyce documents held by the National Archives" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-004250410", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/5: Typescript of a draft biography of William and Margaret Joyce" },{ "id" : "040-004250795", "parent" : "036-004250410", "text" : "Add MS 89481/5/1: Typescript of a draft biography of William and Margaret Joyce I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250796", "parent" : "036-004250410", "text" : "Add MS 89481/5/2: Typescript of a draft biography of William and Margaret Joyce II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250797", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/6: Notes on legal points arising in William Joyce’s trial" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250798", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/7: Papers of John Angus Macnab" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250858", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/8: Papers relating to Eduard Dietze and 'Mary of Arnhem'" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250871", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/9: Papers relating to Gisela Rost and Norman Baillie-Stewart" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250893", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/10: Papers relating to Mary Taviner" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004250894", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/11: Correspondence of Michael Forman and Richard Kupsch" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-004251283", "parent" : "032-004250169", "text" : "Add MS 89481/12: Miscellaneous papers from the William and Margaret Joyce papers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004250169
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 89481/1 : Letters sent from prison by William Joyce
Add MS 89481/2 : Papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce
Add MS 89481/3 : Papers of Margaret Joyce
Add MS 89481/4 : Photocopies of William and Margaret Joyce documents held by the National Archives
Add MS 89481/5 : Typescript of a draft biography of William and Margaret Joyce
Add MS 89481/6 : Notes on legal points arising in William Joyce’s trial
Add MS 89481/7 : Papers of John Angus Macnab
Add MS 89481/8 : Papers relating to Eduard Dietze and 'Mary of Arnhem'
Add MS 89481/9 : Papers relating to Gisela Rost and Norman Baillie-Stewart
Add MS 89481/10 : Papers relating to Mary Taviner
Add MS 89481/11 : Correspondence of Michael Forman and Richard Kupsch
Add MS 89481/12 : Miscellaneous papers from the William and Margaret Joyce papers
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- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 29 files
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1911
- End Date:
- 2005
- Date Range:
- 1911-c 2000
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
- The papers were in the possession of Margaret Joyce and when she died in February 1972 they passed to her husband, Donald May. He sold them to Michael Forman in May 1972.
- Former Internal References:
- Dep 10528
- Source of Acquisition:
- Presented by Michael and Doreen Forman, The Forman Archive, Bromsgrove, June 2008.
- Publications:
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- C E Bechhofer Roberts, ed., The Trial of William Joyce (London: Jarrolds, 1946).
- J W Hall, ed., The Trial of William Joyce (London: William Hodge and Company, 1946).
- Rebecca West, The Meaning of Treason (London: Macmillan, 1949).
- J A Cole, Lord Haw-Haw and William Joyce (London: Faber and Faber, 1964).
- Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1987).
- Adrian Weale, Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994).
- Alan Wharam, Treason: Famous English Treason Trials (Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995).
- M A Doherty, Nazi Wireless Propaganda: Lord Haw-Haw and British Public Opinion in the Second World War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
- Peter Martland, Lord Haw-Haw: the English Voice of Nazi Germany (Richmond, Surrey: National Archives, 2003).
- Mary Kenny, Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw (Dublin: New Island Books, 2003).
- Nigel Farndale, Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce (London: Macmillan, 2005).
- Colin Holmes, Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Copyright in the writings of William and Margaret Joyce is held by Adrian Forman, https://www.adrianforman.com/.
- Names:
- Forman Archive, dealers in military and historical ephemera, of Bromsgrove, 1960s-2008
Joyce, Margaret Cairns, née White, afterwards Brooke-Joyce, afterwards May; wife of William Joyce, 1911-1972
Joyce, William Brooke, fascist and propaganda broadcaster, pseudonym Lord Haw-Haw, 1906-1946
May, Donald John Alban, accountant; second husband of Margaret Joyce, d c 1990 - Related Material:
- The National Archives, Kew has extensive holdings relating to both William and Margaret Joyce across several record series. The University of Sheffield's Special Collections department holds papers relating to William Joyce in several collections.