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   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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