Cpl David Livingstone Diary Extract | Days That Shook the World

Duration: 1'08''

Synopsis

A recreation of a extract from the diary of Cpl David Livingstone taken from the 11th of November 1918, showing how Livingstone realized that the war was at an end; a useful way for students to understand what it was like when the First World War ended.

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