World War I Resources

From 2014 to 2018, across the world, nations, communities and individuals of all ages will come together to mark, commemorate and remember the lives of those who lived, fought and died in the First World War.

Learn about the global war using real news reports and original pictures from the front, from the archives of the Illustrated London News and her sister publications.

The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern.

Umbra: Search African American History (umbrasearch.org) is a free digital platform that brings together content documenting African American history and culture in order to enable the creation of new works—research projects, scholarship, curricula, art of all kinds—that illuminate parts of our history that have not been as broadly accessible as they should.

The WW1 Discovery project aims to make resources about the Great War more discoverable, and to find new and innovative ways to present this content for the benefit of education and research.