{"product_id":"9781803995526","title":"Seeking Mea Allan","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Felicity Goodall\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain | 20th century | Of specific Lesbian interest | Biography: historical, political \u0026amp; military | Biography: literary | Media studies | Gender studies: women | Lesbian studies | Press \u0026amp; journalism\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e July 2026 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 20 Illustrations, black and white \u003cbr\u003e165mm x 244mm x 33mm | 582g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMea 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257206841719,"sku":"9781803995526","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781803995526.jpg?v=1783071771","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781803995526","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}