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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Misc: Daily Mirror, 1914-1916


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 5

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Misc: Daily Mirror, 1914-1916

Date(s): 1914-1916

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 26 items

Name of creator(s): Daily Mirror

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Daily Mirror, founded in 1903, is a daily morning newspaper published in London.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection is 26 copies of the Daily Mirror newspaper, 29 Jul-11 Jun 1916. Included in the newspapers are photographs and articles concerning World War One, most notably the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia, 28 Jul 1914; the mobilisation of Russian troops, 1 Aug 1914; Britain's declaration of war on Germany, 4 Aug 1914; the Battle of Liege, Aug 1914; the French seizure of Alsace, Aug 1914; the French invasion of Lorraine, Aug 1914; the landing of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France, Aug, 1914; the German capture of Louvain, Aug 1914; the drowning of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Jun 1916; and the defeat of Austrian Slav troops in Romania by Russian troops, Jun 1916

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in chronological order

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Editor, Daily Mirror.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre in 1976 by the University of London, Senate House

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Oct 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Newspapers | Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Kitchener | Horatio Herbert | 1850-1916 | 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome | Field Marshal x Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome | 1st Earl

Corporate names
Austro-Hungarian Army
British Army
French Army
Russian Army

Places
Alsace | France | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Liege | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Lorraine | France | Western Europe | Europe
Louvain | France | Western Europe | Europe
Romania | Eastern Europe
Russia | Eastern Europe
Serbia | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe
Crimea x Krym