WW1 in the Classroom: University of Oxford Digital Resources

First World War Digital Projectsfrom the

University of Oxford

Kate LindsayIT Services (Academic)University of Oxford@KTDigital | @WW1C | @WW1Lit

Images: British Library via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

It all started with poetry…

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MSS Drafts, Published Texts, Correspondence, Photographs, Service Records, Diaries…

I’m trying to stop them rehashing the same old A’ Level essays and I think drafts are a really good way to do that…

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen To what extent do drafts of this poem challenge its status as a 'work'?

Hope Wolf: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/path/w83yc7

Why do you think Sassoon prefers:

1. "the monstrous anger of the guns" to "the solemn anger of our guns"?

2. "the blind insolence of their iron mouths" to "the majestic insults of their iron mouths"?

Texts taken from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Images: Blunden Family Archive via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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The Path Creation Tool

Interactive Timelines

They contributed to a community collection

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Germany (2011)

Germany (2011)

Luxembourg (2012)Ireland (2012)UK Preston (2012)Slovenia (2012)Denmark (2012)

Germany (2011)

Luxembourg (2012)Ireland (2012)UK Preston (2012)Slovenia (2012)Denmark (2012)

UK Banbury (3 Nov 2012)Cyprus (Nov 2012)Belgium (Dec 2012)Italy (Mar 2013)

France?Poland?Malta?Austria?Switzerland?Romania?Portugal?Spain?Norway?… ?

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• Mapping the Impact of the Great War

• 18Ib Artillery Shells: The Great War Recycled

• Shellshock on Film• Verdun 1916• Arras: The Forgotten

Battlefield• The Dying Kiss: Gender

and Intimacy in First World War Literature

• Conflict Culture

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Community Blog

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-new-perspectives Audio & Video Talks

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Resource Library

To re-present digital content around World War I in technologically innovative and inventive ways to showcase the full potential of using open material to seed academic debate.

Visualisations

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http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag/interactive-maps/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw

Image: Otis Historical Archive, CC BY-NC-SA..

Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

Can technology move us ‘beyond the trenches’?

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Kate LindsayManager for Engagement, Academic IT Services

Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and BeginningsUniversity of Oxford

katharine.lindsay@it.ox.ac.uk

@KTDigital / @WW1C / @WW1LIt