Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 11/1940/21
Title
Copy extracts from World War One newspaper stories about patriotism, Apr 1940
Date(s)
- 1940 Apr 2 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Extracts from several newspapers published during World War One, including The Times and The Daily Mail, on the subject of an alleged decline of patriotism during World War One, and criticism of the speech in 1915 by the Rev Edward Lyttelton, headmaster of Eton College, in which Lyttelton called for the British to show compassion towards the Germans