The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

IT Services, Stuart Lee- JISC

Principal Investigator / Director: Stuart Lee

Oxford participants: Alun Edwards; Stuart Lee; Kate Lindsay

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/

Start Date: 01/04/2007

End Date: 31/03/2009

Funder: JISC

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): not specified

 

 

Project Description:

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

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 (The Great War Archive), and a set of specially developed educational resources.

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.