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Zusatztext This book offers a first-hand insight into what was happening, from the perspective of someone who was at the centre of things ... Once it's on the library shelves it will be worth taking down. Informationen zum Autor Michael Brock was a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college head; he was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Warden of St George's House, Windsor Castle; he is the author of The Great Reform Act, and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenth-century volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife, Eleanor Brock, a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP edition H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley. Michael Brock died in April 2014. Klappentext A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith. Zusammenfassung A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Editorial note List of illustrations Family Trees Chronology Introduction Margot's Diary 1: 24 July to 7 August 1914 2: 10 August to 21 December 1914 3: January to 13 April 1915 4: 17 April to 19 May 1915 5: 20 May to 3 August 1915 6: 4 August to 15 November 1915 7: 16 November 1915 to 4 May 1916 8: 5 May to 29 August 1916 9: 17 September to 14 December 1916 Epilogue Short titles (and bibliography) of sources used Appendix 1: Biographical notes
