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:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Oct 1999