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Description: | Includes references to: things starting to return to normal, prisoners returning in their thousands (16 Nov); Francis Fane escorted surrendered battleships on the 'Iron Duke' (26 Nov); Harry returned (29 Nov); general election, Mrs Fane voted for the first time (14 Dec); dance at the house (24 Dec); present ration books are the last that will be issued (6 Jan); trouble over demobilisation (6-8 Jan); unpleasant situation in London (18 Jan, 5 Feb); widespread industrial unrest; violent unrest in Belfast and Glasgow (30 Jan-3 Feb); rationing relaxed (22 Feb); worldwide outbreak of influenza (25 Feb, 13 Mar); starvation and Bolshevism in Europe; shortage of coal, instead using wood cut by 3 German prisoners (28 Mar); violence in Ireland, Egypt and India.
Enclosures include: photographic postcards: British troops entering Cologne and aerial view of "the English raid on Zebrugge"; sticker for PoW food parcel; card in the name of Mrs Fane, for the "presentation of badges to Belton Park YMCA War Workers by the Duchess of Portland", 9 Nov; newspaper cuttings: text of the covenant of the League of Nations (15 Feb, 29 Apr); newspaper cutting: account of "De Valera's escape from Lincoln Gaol" (4 Mar); newspaper page: Peace Treaty presented to the Germans (8 May). | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 16 Nov 1918-16 May 1919 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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