Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1916 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Facsimiles of four editions of World War One Western Front trench newspapers, The New Church Times and The Kemmel Times, each of which was incorporated within The Wipers Times, 8 May-3 Jul 1916. While the names of many of the contributors have not survived, the chronicles they presented in the newspaper detail vividly the war conditions on the Western Front. Articles were often spontaneous, preserving the jargon, slang, character, and conversation of the soldiers' surroundings. Although the reader is confronted with all the stark images of the Western Front, these are masked with a humourous irony which demonstrated the spirit of comradeship that prevailed in the British Army
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in 1998 by Mr John Carpenter via Dr Andrew Lambert, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Nov 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Communication process
- Essays
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Newspapers
- Organizations
- Other ranks
- Periodicals
- Persuasion
- Poetry
- Propaganda
- Prose
- Publications
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- War propaganda
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Communications media
- Wars (events)
- Information sciences
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.