The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
University of Oxford
Oxfordshire
England
Website
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired.
The archive was developed at the University of Oxford and is one of 22 digitisation projects within the JISC Digitisation programme delivering high-quality online content for use by the UK further and higher education communities. For further information, please go to: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation.
Venue Type:
Association or society
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources.
Collection details
Weapons and War, Social History, Photography, Personalities, Medicine, Literature, Coins and Medals
Key artists and exhibits
- First World War
- World War One
- Great War
- Wilfred Owen
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Edward Thomas
- Vera Brittain
- Roland Leighton
- Robert Graves
- David Jones
- Edmund Blunden
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Ivor Gurney
- 1914
- 1918
- Literature
- Poetry
- History
- Education
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