Public Record Office

Later that year, shepherds claimed to have heard ghostly noises coming from the site.

Intrigued, King Charles sent officials to investigate, who reported that they had indeed witnessed phantoms, making the Edge Hill ghosts the only spectres officially recognised by the Public Record Office.

Sixty-six years ago, a groundbreaking court case gripped the nation, sparking a new era in Britain's relationship with literature.

On 20 October 1960, the Lady Chatterley's lover trial began at the Old Bailey.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England, I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also, what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.

To a like courtesy from Clarendon Press, Oxford, I am indebted for the block of London stone from the late Sir Lawrence Gomme's The Making of London; to Knowledge for the illustration of the bones of Menkaura on their tray; and to the trustees of the British Museum for that of the coffin-lid of the Pharaoh.

The Public Record Office, always so helpful, granted permission for a photograph to be taken of the Domesday Book; and the Rev.

J. F. Marr, Vicar of Aldgate, allowed me to photograph that grim memento mori which forms my frontispiece.

End of preface.

travelling Americans who underline Domesday in their guide-books before losing sight of Nantucket Point and facing the open Atlantic.

By chance a few others, but those very few.

Yet it is not a long journey to Chancery Lane, nor is the hazard great, to the Public Record Office wherein the Domesday Book is kept, and any weekday afternoon between the hours of two and four will serve.

The attendant at the Record Office Museum, suppressing a yawn, will be glad to see you.

R4118 flew through all of it.

By the time the battle ended, researchers who have since gone through the squadron records, the individual aircraft logbooks, the operations record books at the Public Record Office, believe R4118 flew close to 50 documented combat sorties, more than any other Hurricane that still exists today.

You have to sit with that number for a moment.

50 sorties, 50 times that Merlin engine opened up, and that airframe climbed away from a southern English airfield toward German aircraft.

Vacher started pulling threads.

Aviation historians and researchers had been piecing together the fate of various aircraft from that period for decades.

The Royal Air Force kept remarkably good records, and those records had been cataloged by dedicated people at the Public Record Office and various aviation history societies.

If an aircraft had survived the war in one piece, there was often a paper trail that could be followed, at least partway.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England, I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.

Yeah, yeah.

And you mentioned Kew in the Public Record Office.

Is that free to go and access? Yeah,

it's now the National Archives.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England, I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.

I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London.

In England I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority.

Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources.