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# Title Description Contributor
1 Conflict Culture

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

Matthew Leonard
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1 From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth

Lecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'....

Jean Moorcroft Wilson
2 The Last Phase

A discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From...

Max Egremont
3 The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture)

Free public lecture at Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript

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Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff
4 Anthem for Doomed Youth (readings)

by Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different...

# Essay Title Description Contributor
1 Wilfred Owen - biography

'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'

Stephanie Fishwick, Stuart Lee
2 Edward Thomas - biography

If the war goes on I believe I shall find myself a sort of Englishman, though neither poet...

Katharine Lindsay
3 First World War

The Great War (also known as World War One, and the First World War) was a global combat centred...

Charlotte Barrett
4 The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry

The poetry written during the First World War was often created as an elegiac response to the...

Charlotte Barrett
# Title Description Author
1 Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up Ford Maddox Ford
2 Parade's End: No More Parades Ford Maddox Ford
3 Parade's End: Some Do Not... Ford Maddox Ford
# Resource Title Description Contributor
1 Wilfred Owen Grave

Wilfred Owen - the grave in Ors communal cemetery

# Resource Title Description Contributor
1 Slimescapes (article)

"If the First World War is described as the end of illusion for a whole generation of young men...

Santanu Das
2 The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I

Article by Santanu Das for the World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings...

Santanu Das
3 Truth-telling versus literary allusion in David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937)

Article by Anna Johnson, part of the World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings...

Anna Johnson
4 Europeana 1914-1918 (memorabilia collection)

A big and growing online archive of memorabilia from the time of the First World War. Stories...

5 Edward Thomas's Birthday

Blog post and comments. Includes Thomas's poem, 'March the 3rd'.

Tim Kendall
6 Edward Thomas: 'In Memoriam [Easter 1915]'

Blog post and comments discussing the manuscript of Edward Thomas's 'In Memoriam [Easter 1915...

Tim Kendall