First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Education

Film and Audio Clips

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Over 150 Audio-Visual clips you can download and play in your classroom

  • Find audio interviews with veterans and podcasts with experts in the Audio Collection
  • Find film footage from major First World War Battles, of life in the trenches and the home front in the Film Collection

First World War Timelines

the timeline tool

Use the interactive timelines to find out about the key events from the First World War and explore what the major poets of the period were doing at the time.

Explore the:

  • Letters they wrote
  • Diaries they kept
  • Poetry they authored

You can even upload your own dataset and view it on the timeline.

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