Misc: Ruhleben Internment Camp Magazines

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 82
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: 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, October 2002

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Sept 2007