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Engage: Social Media Talks

Bringing WW1 History into the Present with Twitter

Mechthild Herzog discusses how Twitter can be harnessed to engage large audiences with WW1 history in a range of creative ways.

Alumni Weekend

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.

Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

The War and English Religion

Merton College's Tutor in History, an historian of 20th century Britain, argues that English Christianity survived the First World War rather better than is often assumed.

Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

1914–1918: Was Britain Right to Fight?

The Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Canon of Christ Church, and author of In Defence of War (2013) analyses Britain's belligerency in terms of Christian just war reasoning, and concludes that it was justified.

Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

Victorious Donkeys? British Generals and Generalship of the First World War Reconsidered

The Professor of War Studies at Wolverhampton University, a leading British military historian of the First World War, explodes some myths about British generalship and the performance of the British Army.

Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

Accident or Choice? 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.

First World War: New Perspectives

Shot at Dawn

How a contemporary photographer is addressing one of the conflict's most sensitive topics.

First World War: New Perspectives

The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation

Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination.

First World War: New Perspectives

Popular fiction in World War One

An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public during the First World War.

First World War: New Perspectives

Wartime Art and Grief

German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War.

First World War: New Perspectives

Morality in Wartime Britain

Dr Edward Madigan from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission considers the issue of morality and the role of the British clergy during the First World War.

First World War: New Perspectives

Conflict Culture

How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier?

First World War: New Perspectives

The Better Part of Valour

Combatant Courage on the Western Front.

First World War: New Perspectives

Surplus Women

The First World War and its impact on emigration, work and marriage.

First World War: New Perspectives

The Indian Sepoy in the First World War

The role of India and the Indian Sepoy in the First World War.

First World War: New Perspectives

Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours?

The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914.

First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Tim Kendall: 'Ivor Gurney: First War Poet'

Professor Tim Kendall considers what composer and poet Ivor Gurney understood by the phrase 'war poet' and how he saw his own work as belonging to (and eminent amidst) a tradition of writing about war.

First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Richard Holmes interview

In this interview, the well-known military historian Brigadier Richard Holmes discusses his work on WW1, remembrance, his views on WW1 poetry, and how those experiences relate to the British Army currently serving in Iraq.

First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Ian Hislop interview

An interview with Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, and TV presenter on WW1 documentaries entitled 'Not Forgotten' (Channel 4, UK). Part of a series of Podcasts from Oxford University's First World War Poetry Digital Project.

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