{"product_id":"9781803995526","title":"Seeking Mea Allan : Fleet Street's Forgotten Pioneer by Goodall, Felicity","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Goodall, Felicity\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 July 2026 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 20 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e165 x 244 x 33 | 582g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58353837015421,"sku":"9781803995526","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781803995526_20eef07d-97a0-4a28-8753-052baaceefa0.jpg?v=1783349198","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/fr\/products\/9781803995526","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}