IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 82
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Misc: Ruhleben Internment Camp Magazines
Date(s): 1919
Level of description: collection level
Extent: 3 volumes or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Ruhleben Camp was an internment camp near Berlin, Germany, which housed civilians of the Allied Nations who were living, working or holidaying in Germany on the outbreak of World War One. Camp detainees were allowed to administer their own affairs and were provided with amenities including a printing press. The volumes belonged to William Hunter, Chief Engineer aboard civilian ship the EDWIN HUNTER, which was docked in Kiel, Germany, at the outbreak of World War One.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Bound issues of In Ruhleben Camp, the Ruhleben camp magazine, June 1915 - June 1917; with two issues of La Vie Française de Ruhleben, April 1916 and July 1916. Also The History of Ruhleben: A Record of British Organisation in a Prison Camp in Germany, Joseph Powell (Captain of the Camp) and Francis Gribble (W. Collins, London, 1919).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, French
System of arrangement:
3 volumes
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.
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 Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family, October 2002
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sept 2007