Peace Souvenir and Programme of Merton Festivities 1919
Though hostilities ceased with the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the official end of the Great War only occurred when the peace agreement between the Allies and the Central Powers was signed on 28 June 1919. The British government decided to mark the occasion with an official Peace Celebration and Victory Parade on Saturday 19 July 1919. Each local authority was responsible for arranging their own festivities. Seeing a likely market, Cassell’s the publishers advertised in local papers, ‘for the attention of Peace Celebration Committees’, that they had available a ‘Peace Souvenir, suitable for a Programme of Festivities’.
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