Berrington Hospital, autograph book of Mary Maria Squire, item 12

• April 8, 2017 05:01:00 Cheryl Ellsworth

   Left page: 

   Top left: black and white photograph of a man reading a book in between library stacks with the caption: 
  The Liddle Collection closed access store

  
  

   Top right: black and white photograph of various papers, photographs, and objects including a pair of boots, with the caption: 

  Archive materials of Dr W. S. Macdonald, MC
  

  
  

  experience documentation of service in even the most remote regions

  is included, with material relating to China (Tsing Tao), Aden, the

  Cameroons, and all of the 'Minor Fronts'.

     Two distinctive elements characterize the holdings of the Collection.

  The first is that the physical integrity of all the disparate elements of

  the surviving record of a man or a woman's experience is consistently

  maintained: no departmentalization destroys the inter-relationship of an

  individual's photographs, correspondence, tape-recorded recollections,

  or three-dimensional souvenirs, which are either kept all together or

  can be assembled very quickly.

     The second distinctive element is that the content of each set of

  papers has been thoroughly explored and the findings are readily

  available by means of a topic cross-reference system. This enables the

  enquirer to know precisely where there is evidence relating to a particular

  battle or a given subject of research (for example, morale, or infantry

  tactics at a certain stage of the war), and also where there are letters or

  diary entries which indicate what individuals felt about the war and

  their army service, their regimental officers, the Germans, Belgian

  peasants, fundamental concerns such as food, comforts, or lice, and

  about spiritual or philosophical matters. The close study of such evidence

  is vital in any reappraisal of the many glib generalizations frequently

  made about First World War experience.

     The Collection has long been widely known for its British and

  Commonwealth holdings on the Dardanelles Gallipoli campaign. The

  same is true also, at the level of junior regimental officer and of men

  in the ranks, of the Mesopotamian, Macedonian and Egypt/Palestine

  campaigns. There is outstanding coverage of the pilots, observers and

  ground personnel of the Air Arm and of the sub-lieutenants, midshipmen

  
  

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  and ratings of the Royal Navy. Peter Liddle's published trilogy,

  The Sailor's War (1985), The Airman's War (1987), and The Soldier's War
  

  (1988), indicates the range and fascination of the material available for

  study.

  
  

   Black and white photograph of two men and a woman examining an object in a library, with the caption: 

  HRH the Duchess of Kent, Chancellor of the University,
  

  visits the Liddle Collection, March 1989

  
  

    In the General Section of the Collection are held the papers of men

  who served on the Western Front or on more than one front. There are

  further sections containing the holdings for Mesopotamia, Macedonia,

  Egypt and Palestine, Italy, Aden, West Africa, the Sudan, East Africa,

  Southern Africa, Persia, Russia, India, Burma, China and the Pacific.

  The RFC, the RNAS and the RAF have their own holdings list and

  topic cross-reference index, as does the Royal Navy and Merchant

  Marine. There are separate sections also for Prisoners of War, British

  civilian internees at Ruhleben, the Domestic Front, Women's overseas

  service, Australians and New Zealanders, French and German service,

  Friends Ambulance Unit work and Conscientious Objection. There are

  catalogued map holdings for each front, a list of the extensive newspapers

  and trench newssheets, a tape-recording card index system and

  a card index system for those individuals whose material is solely that

  of manuscript or typescript recollections. A regimental cross-reference

  arrangement is the means by which unit-based research can be conducted;

  there is a catalogue of the fascinating 'museum object' material,

  and there are folders of typed transcriptions of some of the most

  significant tape-recordings.

• April 8, 2017 04:53:10 Cheryl Ellsworth

   Left page: 

   Top left: black and white photograph of a man reading a book in between library stacks with the caption: 
  The Liddle Collection closed access store

  
  

   Top right: black and white photograph of various papers, photographs, and objects including a pair of boots, with the caption: 

  Archive materials of Dr W. S. Macdonald, MC
  

  
  

  experience documentation of service in even the most remote regions

  is included, with material relating to China (Tsing Tao), Aden, the

  Cameroons, and all of the 'Minor Fronts'.

     Two distinctive elements characterize the holdings of the Collection.

  The first is that the physical integrity of all the disparate elements of

  the surviving record of a man or a woman's experience is consistently

  maintained: no departmentalization destroys the inter-relationship of an

  individual's photographs, correspondence, tape-recorded recollections,

  or three-dimensional souvenirs, which are either kept all together or

  can be assembled very quickly.

     The second distinctive element is that the content of each set of

  papers has been thoroughly explored and the findings are readily

  available by means of a topic cross-reference system. This enables the

  enquirer to know precisely where there is evidence relating to a particular

  battle or a given subject of research (for example, morale, or infantry

  tactics at a certain stage of the war), and also where there are letters or

  diary entries which indicate what individuals felt about the war and

  their army service, their regimental officers, the Germans, Belgian

  peasants, fundamental concerns such as food, comforts, or lice, and

  about spiritual or philosophical matters. The close study of such evidence

  is vital in any reappraisal of the many glib generalizations frequently

  made about First World War experience.

     The Collection has long been widely known for its British and

  Commonwealth holdings on the Dardanelles Gallipoli campaign. The

  same is true also, at the level of junior regimental officer and of men

  in the ranks, of the Mesopotamian, Macedonian and Egypt/Palestine

  campaigns. There is outstanding coverage of the pilots, observers and

  ground personnel of the Air Arm and of the sub-lieutenants, midship-

  
  

  
  

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