Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/21 - Scrapbook of press cuttings and other items, Dec 1918 - Feb 1919, on topics including riots in Germany and Britain

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the Spartacist riots in Germany and the deaths of Spartacus League leaders Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Dec-Jan; on demobilisation demonstrations by British troops at Folkestone, Dover, Brighton and London, 4-6 Jan; on strike riots in Glasgow; on Hamilton as chief guest at a dinner of the London Robert Burns Club, Jan 1919; on the creation of the League of Nations. With typescript copy of a letter from Hamilton to an unnamed correspondent, 26 Oct 1915, on his statement to the Cabinet advising against the evacuation of Gallipoli; letter to Lady Hamilton, from her nephew Ian Bogle Monteith Hamilton, on his life as a POW in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, 28 Feb 1916; photograph of a group of unidentified Allied staff officers, [France, 1914-1918] and photograph of the Château de Créminil, Estrée-Blanche, France [pre 1914]. 1 vol, 2 photographs