Reposted by Dr Diane Ranyard
To accompany his new book, Rowan also writes today for the RHS blog on the impact of the Navy and Air Leagues in maintaining militarism in Britain after 1918: bit.ly/3OJ53as
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![Image Description: An extract from a ‘Come back to me’ letter described in an affidavit from the Dix v. Dix restitution of conjugal rights petition.
Image Citation: The National Archives; London, England, UK; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, J 77; Reference Number: J 77/904/7439; Series Number: J 77; Piece Number: 904
Alt Text: The image is of a piece of old paper with faint lines drawn horizontally and one line vertically on the left-hand side creating a margin. On the horizontal lines are words written in a flowing handwriting in black ink. The quoted words from the letter have a double quote sign at the start of every line even though the quote has not ended, and it says: ‘2. That on the 20th December 1906 I wrote my husband a letter which was as follows:- “I think I have waited long “enough to see if anything would happen and “I now ask you to tell me definitely if you “are prepared to put away this woman and “make a home for me and Jacqueline”. Such letter was address[ed] by me to my husband at his office situated at 2 Collingwood Street Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he practices as a solicitor.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vizcqkupmww5p7g6nc24zt5w/bafkreihfbdkmtlnlv6wmvipwd4dayix7yipbq52lg3utd3ma7lz2wpmpti)
![Source Citation: Wikimedia Commons contributors, 'File:26 Gloucester Place, Brighton (IoE Code 480742).JPG', Wikimedia Commons, 24 May 2023, 23:21 UTC, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:26_Gloucester_Place,_Brighton_(IoE_Code_480742).JPG&oldid=766735062> [accessed 11 December 2024].
The image is a modern photograph of an old terrace building (built in the early 19th century) that appears to be housing. It is four storeys high, with a white facade and bay windows on every floor. The bay window on the second floor has a balcony with black railings and a small porch hanging over the top of the window. There are steps leading up to a door with another balcony above it and railings running across the front of the house. A tall tree is partially visible on the left-hand side of the photograph that is in front of the building.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vizcqkupmww5p7g6nc24zt5w/bafkreifolwjddzbakmkar6vd7tenxn4mhfu276isj7ttx7pidrcnihguua)