H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley
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A series of letters between H. H. Asquith and Venetia Stanley, the young woman with whom he had fallen in love. These letters are not merely personal, they also document the years from 1912 to 1915, revealing state secrets, describing his colleagues in government, and charting Asquith's political career and downfall.

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A series of letters between H. H. Asquith and Venetia Stanley, the young woman with whom he had fallen in love. These letters are not merely personal, they also document the years from 1912 to 1915, revealing state secrets, describing his colleagues in government, and charting Asquith's political career and downfall.
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Michael Brock is 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 has recently edited a new collection of Margot Asquith's Great War Diaries.