Documents figure in Antiques Roadshow

A cache of mysterious old documents discovered by author Patrick Garrett will feature in a Special Antiques Roadshow – ‘Pioneering Women’ – on BBC at 8pm on Sunday June 10th.

The documents belonged to the celebrated War Correspondent, Clare Hollingworth, and proved to be the impetus and inspiration for Patrick’s biography of Hollingworth, “Of Fortunes & War”, published last year.

The programme was filmed in the Houses of Parliament, and is timed to celebrate a century since women secured the vote in the UK.

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Patrick Garrett

Patrick Garrett

  Patrick Garrett was born in London, grew up in Scotland, but has lived in Eastern Europe and Asia since the 1990s. He began his working life as a television editor in Glasgow. After a stint doing TV commercials in Hamburg, during the turbulent Yeltsin years he moved to Moscow to work i...More about Patrick Garrett