Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/20
Title
Scrapbook of press cuttings, Nov-Dec 1918, on topics including the armistice and the Kaiser's abdication
Date(s)
- 1918 Nov 2 - 1918 Dec 15 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the armistice between Germany and the Allies; on the abdication of Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, and speculation on his possible trial for war crimes; on the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet; reviews of The Dardanelles Campaign by Henry Woodd Nevinson (Nisbet & Co, London, 1918); on the eulogy given by Hamilton on Sir Walter Raleigh, on the tercentenary commemoration of his death at the Tower of London. With edition of the Daily Mail (11 Nov), and part edition of John Bull (23 Nov). 1 vol