Great War Archive
“Go and explore The First World War Digital Poetry Archive and The Great War Archive. Go even if you don’t care about the First World War, just to revel in the high quality of the thought that has gone into creating such a wonderful resource.”Dan Todman, Historian
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a wealth of resources for researchers, teachers, students, and the general public . Anyone is entitled to use the material for Educational Purposes (means for the purpose of education, teaching, distance learning, private study and/or research) but not for Commercial Purposes (i.e. selling or reselling the material or using it for any commercial gain).
The play, Journey’s End, was on last week at The Oxford Playhouse and very good it was too.
A press release from the Hague 16.12.10 described the signing of our new 1914-18 archive alliance. The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from the First World War in order to create an online archive about the people involved in the conflict.
There will be a series of roadshows in libraries around Germany that will invite people to bring documents and artefacts from family members involved in the First World War to be digitised by mobile scanning units, and to tell the stories that go with them. There will also be a website allowing people to submit material online if they are unable to attend the local events. Everything submitted will also be available through Europeana, where it will add a new perspective to collections of First World War material from institutions across Europe. The collaborators will bring German soldiers’ stories online alongside their British counterparts in a 1914-18 archive.