Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/17 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, Mar-May 1918, on topics including the Western Front and allegations that David Lloyd George lied about the strength of British forces

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the suggestions of German culpability for the outbreak of war made by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, former German ambassador to Britain, Mar-Apr; on the German Spring offensive on the Western Front (Second Battle of the Somme), including the battles of St Quentin, Bapaume, the Lys and Kemmel Ridge, Mar-Apr; on the visit of Hamilton to Bristol for Gallipoli day commemorations, 25 Apr 1918; on demonstrations against proposals for conscription in Ireland; on the controversy over the letter of Maj Gen Frederick Barton Maurice to The Times, accusing the British Prime Minister of misleading Parliament over Army strength, 8 May; on the arrests of Sinn Fein leaders, on suspicion of plotting a rebellion in Ireland with German support, 19 May. 1 vol