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Websites
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Every Object Tells a Story
www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/E/every_object/
What means the world to you? Is it an album of family photos, a stash of hidden
love letters, or a pair of lucky shoes? This is a website devoted to the stories
behind our favourite things.
Remembrance Day
www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/
can_you_believe_it/religion/festremem.html
Brief history of Remembrance Day, celebrated across Britain on the nearest
Sunday to 11 November (Armistice Day).
Rescued from Oblivion
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/
e-h/homefront.html
Edited version of the introduction to All Quiet on the Home Front: An
oral history of life in Britain during the First World War. Film-maker
Steve Humphries describes in detail what we will lose if we do not listen
to these soon-to-be-silenced voices.
Women in the 20th Century
http://web.channel4.com/learning/main/
netnotes//programid1005.htm
This C4 Learning website examines the roles of women during the last century
in terms of war, work and the family.
Men
Shell Shock during World War One
www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
shellshock_01.shtml
By the end of the First World War the British Army had dealt with 80,000 cases of shell shock, including those of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Joanna Bourke explores how the army tackled this extreme trauma, and how it was regarded by those back home.
Women
Order of the White Feather
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfeather.htm
In August 1914, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded the Order of the White
Feather. With the support of some women writers, the organisation encouraged
women to give out white feathers to young men who had not joined the British
Army.
Women on the Home Front in World War I
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/
women_employment_01.shtml
World War One opened up radical new employment opportunities to women. Professor
Joanna Bourke evaluates the enduring impact of the war on women's lives.
Women and War
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwomen.htm
Offers brief biographies of a large number of women in different roles and
groups during the war, alongside quotes, extracts from books and newspapers.
World War I and Women
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world_war_
one_and_women.htm
Looks at the varied roles women took at home during the First World War,
from jobs in transport to working in shipyards.
Women's Suffrage
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wfirst.htm
Looks at the role of the Suffrage movement in Britain before, during and
after the First World War, with quotes from the Pankhurst family and other
prominent women when they learned Britain was at war.
Personal Stories
Children of the Great War
www.greatwar.nl/index.html
Looks at the teenagers who enlisted and the way the media portrayed them
during the First World War – with loads of photographs.
From the Western Front to Salonika
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cjmorton/service.htm
Written by a young man about his grandfather who signed up for service aged
21, and who, in spite of being gassed, managed to survive the First World
War.
Memoirs & Diaries: A boy's experiences
www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/aboysexperiences.htm
C J Arthur enlisted in May 1915, after a weekend in camp with the Boy Scouts,
and within ten weeks was promoted to Sergeant. He went to war in France in
May 1916 at the age of 17. This is his account of life at the front.
Art and culture (including memorials)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/toc/tocindex.html
American University site that looks at how the First World War influenced
poetry, fiction and drama.
Art of the First World War
www.art-ww1.com/gb/index2.html
An exhibition of 110 paintings by 54 artists brought together by the major
history museums of Europe.
Irish War Memorials
www.irishwarmemorials.ie/
Presents an inventory of war memorials in Ireland including photographs of
each memorial, the text of all inscriptions, and details of the site of the
memorial.
McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial
www.heartsgreatwarmemorial.org.uk/index.html
Moving story of The 16th Royal Scots, including members of the Heart of Midlothian
footballers, most of whom died at the Somme. A memorial was finally unveiled
to them on the Somme in 2004.
Out of the World of Summer 1914 Marched a Unique Generation
www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/critical/critical.html
University site that offers a list of critical literary works of the period,
plus many links to writer's and poet's biographies and photographs.
Unknown Warrior
www.westminster-abbey.org/history-research/monuments-gravestones/people/1220
Housed in Westminster Abbey is the grave of an Unknown Warrior, whose body
was brought from France to be buried there on 11 November 1920. On it is
an inscription, composed by the Dean of Westminster.
UK National Inventory of War Memorials
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00g00c
A project that aims to create a database of information of all known war
memorials in the UK, estimated at between 50,000 and 60,000.
United Kingdom War Memorials
www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/memorials.htm
Following the level of losses of the First World War, local communities up
and down the country began drawing up plans for their own local memorials.
In the UK, as in France and Belgium, almost every village has one. This page
describes how this was organised.
Vorticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticist
Community encyclopaedia that gives a potted history of the Vorticist modern
art movement and its participants.
War Memorials Remembered in Stone
www.aftermathww1.com/memoria2.asp
Individual's site with lots of info and photographs on unusual and
interesting war memorials, plus news clips and streamed music of the First
World War.