Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good,
the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of
historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the
immediate and much more distant past.
This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin
Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others.
Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications,
relations between international leaders, child emigration including the
Kindertransport.
The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a
3000 word introduction.