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Felicity Goodall - Seeking Mea Allan, Inbunden

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Seeking Mea Allan

Fleet Street's Forgotten Pioneer

Av Felicity Goodall

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Beskrivning
‘I’m in love with May Chalmers and I don’t know what to do about it.’It was a bold, unexpected confession, scribbled in a diary by one of the few female reporters in Fleet Street during the Second World War – and it sent Felicity Goodall on a journey that led to places she could never have imagined.Mea Allan was a star reporter on Britain’s biggest-selling daily paper, the first woman on a Fleet Street news desk and to be permanently accredited to the British Army as a war correspondent, and the only woman to report from newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and cover the subsequent trials. She was once so famous that her name was used to advertise Horlicks – and yet she has all but disappeared from history.Seeking Mea Allan interweaves past and present as we travel from London to Glasgow, from Paris to Hamburg and beyond, to answer the questions that still linger: was Mea written out of history because of her sexuality? Or was something more subtle at work?
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-02
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 33 mm
  • Vikt: 582 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: The History Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781803995526
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FELICITY GOODALL is a former journalist and freelance foreign correspondent. She wrote Radio 4 play about Mea Allan Change of Heart (1999), and has written for publications such as The Sunday Times, Business Week, The Listener and The Guardian. She spent 15 years as a producer and presenter for BBC Radio 4 and has written five books of non-fiction. She was researcher and interviewer for a Radio 3 Docudrama about PTSD, Soldiers in the Sun, which was shortlisted in the Mental Health Awards 2008.

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'I had never heard of Mea Allan, despite having done lots of research into Fleet Street journalists of the early to mid twentieth century. Felicity Goodall has rescued Mea from obscurity and in a lively, deeply researched account given this maverick female journalist, who operated in an often very oppressive man's milieu and world, the prominence she deserves. A very interesting read.'

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