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WW1 in the Classroom: University of Oxford Digital Resources
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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…
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
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
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/educationhttp://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive
The Path Creation Tool
Interactive Timelines
They contributed to a community collection
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
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?… ?
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
• 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
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Community Blog
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-new-perspectives Audio & Video Talks
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
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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http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Kate LindsayManager for Engagement, Academic IT Services
Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and BeginningsUniversity of Oxford
@KTDigital / @WW1C / @WW1LIt