Item BARNARDISTON 3/5 - Personal diary, 1919, relating to Portugal

Personal diary and notebook covering the final months of Barnardiston's post as Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal, and mainly consisting of descriptions of civil unrest in that country, including an uprising by monarchist sympathisers which extended to much of the southern part of the country, and the Government's military reaction; a demonstration held in Lisbon against the police being armed, which developed into rioting and mob rule; Barnardiston's descriptions of, and observations on, Portuguese history, politics and national character; a discussion of the threats posed by Spanish and German influence in Portugal. 1 vol.