Beyond the Trenches

Digital Resources from the

University of Oxford

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

It all started with poetry…

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

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

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

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

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive

They contributed to a community collection

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48 roadshows & online4000 stories

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/0321/media-3234751.html

http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/oucs/ww1/Thomas%20edit.mp4

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Resource Library

• 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

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 and new directions in teaching.

Visualisations

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/category/battle-of-arras/

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/the-terrains-of-the-great-war/

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/wikipedia-and-the-fronts-of-ww1/

http://www.manypedia.com/

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/mapping-the-impact-of-the-great-war/

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-and-its-relation-to-the-first-world-war/

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag/simulations/

Can technology move us ‘beyond the trenches’?

http://www.slideshare.net/WW1C

Kate LindsayManager for Education Enhancement, Academic IT Services

Director, First World War Digital CollectionsUniversity of Oxford

katharine.lindsay@it.ox.ac.uk

@KTDigital / @WW1C / @WW1LIt