Undelivered French love letters finally opened after 265 years

Historian Renaux Morieux has found dozens of unopened letters in British archives from relatives and lovers of French sailors whose ship was captured by a British vessel in the 18th century.

These rare documents, which Morieux describes as having given him "the greatest emotion I've experienced as a historian", offer a fascinating insight into the lives of sailors and their families in the 1700s, from the wife of a senior naval officer to an elderly mother reproaching her son for not writing.