This temporary installation to time with our Great Escapes exhibition displays photographs from the prisoner of war camp that was located on the site of The National Archives in Kew in 1945. The land ...

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Letter from M L Steward against the dangers of forcible feeding, 7 April 1912 (Catalogue ref: HO144/1194/220196) May I ask that you will give expression to the strong feeling that exists all over the ...

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With reference to the case of Lilian Lenton who was brought up at the Richmond (Surrey) Police Court on the 9th instant [dated this month] on a charge of arson and committed for trial, I am directed ...

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SUMMARY OF THE PROGRESS OF THE HUNGER MARCHERS. Five sets of hunger marchers are on the way. (1) The Scottish contingent, which is the biggest, was 256 strong when it arrived at Blackburn on the 9th.

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Comments: Served in Plymouth dockyard (ordinary), 30 July 1797-7 March 1798 as a carpenter.

[This letter was written by Thomas Povey, a civil servant in the Naval Office who knew Samuel Pepys. The letter is to Joseph Williamson, an important politician in ...