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Anthony Fletcher

Anthony Fletcher pays tribute to the great historian of English protestantism, who ventured far and wide in the academic world.

Published October 17 2011

The messages sent by British soldiers of the First World War to their loved ones back home have long been valued for what they tell us about daily life in the trenches. But their authors were often at pains not to reveal too much of the horror they endured. Anthony Fletcher considers what these documents reveal about the men’s inner lives.

Published October 16 2009
Published May 14 2009
Published May 16 2008
Anthony Fletcher delves into the diaries of teenage girls in the Georgian and Victorian eras to explore the little-changing constraints, punishments and occasional delights of being brought up a girl in upper-class Britain before the Great War.
Published March 11 2008
A New History of the English Civil Wars
Published February 15 2008
Published April 19 2006

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising ninety years ago this month, to explore her youthful patriotism and vigorous activism.

Published March 13 2006
Anthony Fletcher reviews a work on Georgian sex and medicine.
Published October 17 2005
Anthony Fletcher reads his grandfather’s correspondence from the Western Front to see how he maintained morale and developed his leadership.
Published July 21 2004
Anthony Fletcher looks at three new contributions to the field of early modern history.
Published April 16 2002

Anthony Fletcher outlines the Victoria County History's exciting plans for a new century.

Published September 16 2001
Jill Liddington
Published September 30 1999
A Social History of the English Bar 1590-1640
Published November 1 1987

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