Resources Highlighted
The Project, Owen’s Last Days’, closed several years ago. When it was launched it linked to a separate service for the source documents. These have since been migrated to the University’s Sustainable Scholarly Service (SD). To find any of the resources below go to: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/Wilfred_Owen_Collection.
Great Writers Inspire
Wilfred Owen biography, Stephanie Fishwick and Stuart Lee: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/wilfred-owen-biography
“The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen” lecture, Peter Bunyan and Chris Cuff: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/life-times-wilfred-owen-lecture
“Conflict Culture” lecture, Matthew Leonard: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/conflict-culture
“The Last Phase” Lecture, Max Egremont: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/last-phase
“Collected Poem” text: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/collected-poems-0
“Beyond the Slaughter” conversation, Michael Portillo et al.: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/beyond-slaughter-loss-first-world-war-conversation
“The Great War: A Brief Sketch” text, Charles Fletcher: https://www.writersinspire.org/content/great-war-1914-1918-brief-sketch
The First World War Poetry Digital Archives
“List of Contents” manuscript: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5197/4561
Letter to Susan Owen, August 1917: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5253
“An Introduction to War Poetry” tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/intro
“Dulce et Decorum Est” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5215
“Dulce et Decorum Est” manuscript study tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/manuscript/owen
R. Thorpe-Tracey interview: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1212
“The Making of an Officer” video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5511
Letter to Susan Owen, October 1918: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5261
Proceedings of Owen’s medical board: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5088
Letter to Susan Owen, September 1917: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5256
“Exposure” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5210
“Exposure” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5195
“Over the Top” training video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1243
“Battle Training” video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1259
“Battle Training” video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1258
“Training for Battle” video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1818
Walter Ernest Clarke interview: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1145
Hydra Editorial manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5101/5032
Hydra Editorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3132/1886
“Arms and the Boy” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/4548
“Arms and the Boy” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/4543
John Malcolm Lawrence interview: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1775
“Break of Day in the Trenches” tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/rose/poem
“Stand by the Men” video:http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5524
The Hydra advertising supplement: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3140
“Anthem for Doomed Youth” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/4647
“Anthem for Doomed Youth” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/4544
Letter to Susan Owen, October 1918: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5262
Forester’s Cottage image:http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3864
Sambre Canal image: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5411
Sambre Canal image: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5412
Charles Robert Quinnell interview: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1194
R. Thorpe-Tracey interview: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1208
“Strange Meeting manuscript”: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5202
“Strange Meeting manuscript”: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5654
Edmund Blunden recording:http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9422
“Comparing Literature” tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/compare
“To my Brother”: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/2840
Sambre battle report: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5166
“Preface” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/4547
“Disabled” tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/owen
“Disabled” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5203
“Disabled” manuscript: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5204
Guide to finding army service records: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/exhibits/show/hurricaneally-tv2wjo
Guide to deciphering family photos: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/exhibits/show/hurricaneally-s4d4kg
“Artillery barrage” video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1816
Owen memorial image: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5415
“Remembrance” tutorial: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/remembrance
Owen’s MC citation: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5044
Ceasefire order: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/5958
Owen’s grave: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5417
Sambre canal video: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3805
University of Oxford Podcasts
“Wilfred Owen” lecture, Jon Stallworthy: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/wilfred-owen
“Accident or Choice” lecture, Margaret MacMillan: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/accident-or-choice-outbreak-first-world-war
“Poetry vs History” lecture, Stuart Lee: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/poetry-vs-history
“War Poetry” lecture, Mark Rawlinson: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/war-poetry
“Commemoration” conversation, Jane Potter and Kate McLoughlin: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/jane-potter-speaks-kate-mcloughlin
World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings
Operation War Diary: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/operation-war-diary/
“Sheer”, Tim Watts: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/sheer/
“Wilfred Owen: 60s Poet”, Harry Ricketts: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/aftermath/owen-the-60s-poet/
“The Poetry is in the Pity”, Vincent Trott: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/the-poetry-is-in-the-pity-wilfred-owen-and-the-memory-of-the-first-world-war/
Historic newspapers resource: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/teaching-history-resources-historic-newspapers/
“Basket Case”, Christopher Harvie: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/basket-case/
WW1 posters: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/material/the-first-world-war-in-posters/
“The Dying Kiss”, Santanu Das: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-dying-kiss-gender-and-intimacy-in-the-trenches-of-world-war-i/
“Wilfred Owen and Louis Simpson”, Michael Sarnowski: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/reliving-exposure/
“Smile, Smile, Smile”, Douglas Kerr: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/war-as-revolution/smile-smile-smile/
“Owen’s Latin”, Elizabeth Vandiver: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/owens-latin/
“Death on the Eve of Armistice”, Michael Palin: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/death-on-the-eve-of-armistice-openlearn-open-university/
“Influenza Mortality” chart, Richard Marshall: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/chart-of-influenza-mortality-in-america-and-europe-1918-1919-otis-historical-archives-national-museum-of-health-and-medicine/
“Spanish Influenza Pandemic”, Kenneth Kahn: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-and-its-relation-to-the-first-world-war/
“Wilfred Owen: Resonances”, Brigitte Friant-Keller: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/resonances/
“Victorious Donkeys” podcast, Gary Sheffield: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/victorious-donkeys-british-generals-and-generalship-of-the-first-world-war-reconsidered-university-of-oxford-podcasts/
“Postcard from the Front Line of Teaching”, Eleanor Boudreau: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/teaching-dulce/
“Slimescapes”, Santanu Das: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/slimescapes/
“Wilfred Owen and the Modern Elegy”, Emma Suret: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/owen-modern-elegy/
“Wilfred Owen and Carol Ann Duffy”, Marcy Tanter: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/owen-duffy/
“At the Water’s Edge”, Gerald Dawe: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/at-the-waters-edge/
“Wilfred Owen and the Culture of Commemoration”, Eva Zettelmann: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/wilfred-owen-and-the-culture-of-commemoration/
“Memory and History”, Alex Nordlund: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/4-11-november-1918/
“An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen”, Lucy Freeland: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/teaching-wilfred-owen/
