The Great War Archive Flickr Group
The Art of the First World War
Aftermath: A site exploring the enduring impact of the war. Newsclips, poetry, remembrance. Stories of those who returned.
The Heritage of the Great War An idiosyncratic site with a definite point of view. Many excellent resources. No sugar coating.
The British Library – Great resources and interactive materials
PBS: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century The companion site to the TV series.
BBC: for Schools: Read and listen – diaries, personal accounts, memorabilia and more.
Spartacus Schoolnet First World War Index
The First World War Digital Poetry Archive from Oxford University
The Imperial War Museum The next best thing to an actual visit. If you are ever in London make it a prime destination. Extraordinary exhibits and collections. Excellent online collection too: Watch, listen, read, learn.
The First World War – a multi media history
British Magazines During The Great War – One of many extensive pages of eyewitness accounts, postcards, picture contemporary material 1914-1918 to be found at The Great War in a Different Light – a site that is often not accessible. Some wonderful oddities.
The Great War Society: Learning and Research Center
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. To grasp some idea of the staggering scale of the war and the loss look at this searchable database. And this is only the British and Commonwealth casualties.
Forever India: a film from the CWGC commemorating the 74,000 men from the sub-continent who served and died in WW1
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The Great War Today – Twitter feed Get your daily dose of what happened on this day in the first world war.
Best documentaries about the Great War
Best films and TV series
Paths of Glory
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gallipoli
My Boy Jack
The Grand Illusion
Hedd Wyn
The Trench
Journey’s End
Music and Musicians of The Great War
Social Change in the UK
How The Outcome of the War changed the maps of the world
The Enduring Impact of the War on the History of the World
How The Great War changed the History of Medicine.
Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front
Not So Quiet
Regeneration (trilogy)
Birdsong
A Farewell to Arms
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Journey’s End – R.C.Sheriff (Play)
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston – Siegfried Sassoon
Memoir
Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
Goodbye to all That
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Under Fire
With Machine Gun to Cambrai
Undertones of War -Edmund Blunden
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer – Siegfried Sassoon
Non-Fiction
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
Outside Verdun – Arnold Zweig
The Missing of the Somme