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J. R. R. Tolkien and G. B. Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?

Stuart Lee talks about Tolkien's recently published war poetry in the context of G. B. Smith.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The First World War, India and Empire

Professor Santanu Das discusses the complexity of commemoration, the messiness of history and the role of scholarly emotion with Kate McLoughlin.

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019.

Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone

Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience.

Stories, Spaces and Societies - Globalising and Localising the Great War

'The Marrow of the Tragedy is Concentrated in the Hospitals': Negotiating Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in the Great War

The closing keynote by Dr Jane Potter illuminates how medics and nurses charged with treating the war wounded responded to and processed their experiences, analysing the stories these healers left behind and the silent spaces within them.

Public or Private? Personal Correspondence during the Great War

In the first keynote of the conference, Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford) explores the convergence of the public and private spheres during the Great War through the practice of letter-writing.

Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War

Sir Hew Strachan delivers the first Rothermere American Institute Lecture at the annual Chalke Valley History Festival on 29 June 2016.

Wharton in Wartime

A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Too Valuable to Die?

Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar and Liz Bruton debate the ethics of science and scientists going to war

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford!

From Edwardian Merton to the Western Front 1906-1918

A talk by Professor Anthony Fletcher (Merton 1959), Emeritus Professor of English Social History at the University of London, and author of 'Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front'.

Conscription and Conscientious Objection

In this short talk Professor Martin Ceadel, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford discusses the issue of military conscription and conscientious objection during the first world war.

Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate.

Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Beyond

First World War Trench Art.

The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both sides of the trenches.

New Perspectives 1: Georgians and Others

Short presentation as part of the Oxford 'British Poetry of the First World War' Spring School

The Peace that Ended the War

The first in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Margaret MacMillan -- Warden of St Antony's College and a Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.

How to digitise objects well

Short and snappy guidelines to creating a good picture for online viewing.

How to set up your camera for digitisation

Short and snappy guidelines to setting up for digitisation of objects.

How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation)

Part 4 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories.

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