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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. |
Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das |
27 Mar 2020 |
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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. |
Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter |
20 Nov 2019 |
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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. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
25 Aug 2017 |
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'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. |
Jane Potter |
21 Oct 2016 |
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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. |
John Horne |
21 Oct 2016 |
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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. |
Hew Strachan |
12 Sep 2016 |
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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). |
Alice Kelly, Shafquat Towheed, Dame Hermione Lee, Elleke Boehmer |
11 Feb 2016 |
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Too Valuable to Die? |
Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar and Liz Bruton debate the ethics of science and scientists going to war |
Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar, Liz Bruton |
14 Oct 2015 |
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Open Educational Resources (OER) |
Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford! |
Sean Faughnan, Marion Manton |
06 Jul 2015 |
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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'. |
Anthony Fletcher |
27 Mar 2015 |
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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. |
Martin Ceadel |
12 Nov 2014 |
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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. |
Margaret MacMillan |
04 Nov 2014 |
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Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Beyond |
First World War Trench Art. |
Nicholas Saunders |
16 Oct 2014 |
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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. |
Eugene Rogan |
03 Oct 2014 |
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New Perspectives 1: Georgians and Others |
Short presentation as part of the Oxford 'British Poetry of the First World War' Spring School |
Stuart Lee |
06 Sep 2014 |
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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. |
Margaret MacMillan |
03 Sep 2014 |
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How to digitise objects well |
Short and snappy guidelines to creating a good picture for online viewing. |
Patrick Penzo |
18 Aug 2014 |
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How to set up your camera for digitisation |
Short and snappy guidelines to setting up for digitisation of objects. |
Patrick Penzo |
18 Aug 2014 |
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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. |
Patrick Penzo, Adelina Tomova |
18 Aug 2014 |
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How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation desk to Digitisation) |
Part 3 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Adelina Tomova, Patrick Penzo |
18 Aug 2014 |
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How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview to Digitisation desk) |
Part 2 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Frances Dunkley, Alun Edwards, Adelina Tomova, Rebecca Henderson |
18 Aug 2014 |
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How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview stage) |
Part 1 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Alun Edwards, Frances Dunkley, Rebecca Henderson |
18 Aug 2014 |
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The Black Hand Conspiracy and the Events that lead up to the First World War |
Professor Sir Ivor Roberts, President of Trinity College, gives a talk on the events leading up to the assasination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which started the First World War |
Sir Ivor Roberts |
03 Jun 2014 |
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Remembering War |
Marking the anniversary of the first world war, Professor Cecile Fabre considers why we remember war, |
Cecile Fabre |
01 Apr 2014 |
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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. |
Matthew Grimley |
25 Feb 2014 |
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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. |
Nigel Biggar |
13 Feb 2014 |
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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. |
Gary Sheffield |
11 Feb 2014 |
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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. |
Margaret MacMillan |
03 Feb 2014 |
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Shot at Dawn |
How a contemporary photographer is addressing one of the conflict's most sensitive topics. |
Chloe Dewe Matthews |
18 Jul 2013 |
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From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth |
Lecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'. Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012. |
Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
27 Feb 2013 |
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From Mametz Wood to The General |
Lecture on Siegfried Sassoon given at the Imperial War Museum, London, 12th November 2011. |
Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
27 Feb 2013 |
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Les Permissionnaires |
A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). |
Emmanuelle Cronier |
20 Feb 2013 |
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Soldiers on Leave |
A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. |
Emmanuelle Cronier |
20 Feb 2013 |
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The Last Phase |
A discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to Battle of the Sambre', Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012. |
Max Egremont |
18 Feb 2013 |
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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. |
Dr Paul Miller |
10 Jan 2013 |
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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. |
Jane Potter |
10 Dec 2012 |
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Wartime Art and Grief |
German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. |
Claudia Siebrecht |
10 Dec 2012 |
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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. |
Edward Madigan |
10 Dec 2012 |
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Conflict Culture |
How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? |
Matthew Leonard |
29 Oct 2012 |
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The Better Part of Valour |
Combatant Courage on the Western Front. |
Edward Madigan |
29 Oct 2012 |
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Surplus Women |
The First World War and its impact on emigration, work and marriage. |
Rosemary Wall |
29 Oct 2012 |
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The Indian Sepoy in the First World War |
The role of India and the Indian Sepoy in the First World War. |
Santanu Das |
29 Oct 2012 |
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Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? |
The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. |
Catriona Pennell |
29 Oct 2012 |
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The Historian and the Centenary |
Important questions, problems, and challenges pertaining to the role historians and scholars will play in the centenary of the First World War. |
Pierre Purseigle |
29 Oct 2012 |
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Why are we still trying to understand the outbreak of World War One? |
In this St John's College Research Centre 2012 Annual Lecture, Professor Margaret MacMillan examines the reasons why this question has remained important over the last 100 years and suggests some possible explanations for the outbreak of the war. |
Margaret MacMillan |
29 Oct 2012 |
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Europeana 1914-1918: Community Collection |
Alun Edwards, Manager for RunCoCo, University of Oxford, discusses the value of crowd-sourcing and public engagement in the Europeana 1914-1918 project to digitise First World War memorabilia. |
Alun Edwards |
24 Aug 2012 |
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Beyond 2011 - A Road Movie |
Alun Edwards and Stuart Lee (Oxford University Computing Services) present their experiences of running public participation days in Germany to gather everyday objects from World War I. |
Alun Edwards, Stuart Lee |
26 May 2011 |
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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. |
Tim Kendall |
26 Jan 2010 |
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An interview with Colin Hughes |
Colin Hughes, author of David Jones: the man who was on the field (1979), discusses his friendship with poet and artist David Jones and his research on the Battle of Mametz Wood. |
Colin Hughes, Alun Edwards |
26 Jan 2010 |
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WW1 Poetry Digital Archive Project |
JISC documentary introducing the WW1 Poetry Digital Archive Project website and providing an overview to the wealth of material available. |
Kate Lindsay |
13 Nov 2008 |
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War Cemeteries |
A short video made by the First World War Poetry Digital Archive taking viewers through tracing the burial site of a soldier of the First World War. |
Everett Sharp, Kate Lindsay, Alun Edwards |
05 Aug 2008 |
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Kate Lindsay Interview |
In a podcast recorded earlier this year, Kate Lindsay, Project Manager for the First World War Poetry Digital Archive discusses the exciting development of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and The Great War Archive. |
Kate Lindsay |
29 Jul 2008 |
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Trench Warfare |
A short video made by the First World War Poetry Digital Archive taking viewers through some of the features associated with trench warfare on the Western Front during World War One. |
Everett Sharp |
29 Jul 2008 |
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Poetry Tour - London (2) |
A second enhanced podcast tour of some of the exhibits in the Imperial War Museum. The tour takes you through the Trench Experience and the end of the war, linking to some of the poets and poetry of the period. |
Stuart Lee |
29 May 2008 |
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Teaching WW1 Literature: Andrea Peterson |
Andrea Peterson 'Children's Literature'. |
Andrea Peterson |
06 May 2008 |
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Teaching WW1 Literature: Vivien Noakes |
Vivien Noakes 'Blasting the Canon'. |
Vivien Noakes |
06 May 2008 |
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Teaching WW1 Literature: Meg Crane |
Meg Crane 'WW1 Poetry in Schools'. |
Meg Crane |
06 May 2008 |
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Teaching WW1 Literature: Jon Stallworthy |
Jon Stallworthy 'War Poetry'. |
Jon Stallworthy |
06 May 2008 |
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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. |
Richard Holmes |
02 Apr 2008 |
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Poetry Tour - London (1) |
An enhanced podcast tour of some of the exhibits in the Imperial War Museum. The tour takes you through the displays on the First World War but links them to some of the poets and poetry of the period. |
Stuart Lee |
28 Jan 2008 |
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Max Arthur Interview |
An interview with Max Arthur, author of 'Forgotten Voices', 'Last Post', and most recently 'Faces of World War One: The Tragedy of the Great War in Words and Pictures'. |
Max Arthur |
12 Dec 2007 |
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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. |
Ian Hislop |
25 Sep 2007 |