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Ian Gabrielson

Map-of-Europe-in-1914.jpg (1500×1147) - 16 views

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 29 Jan 13
     
    Great illustrated Map of Europe from 1914. Analysis of the animation for each country could provoke some very interesting  discussion
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

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  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
Bob Maloy

World War I Document Archive - 12 views

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    Documents and images from pre-1914 to the post-war era.
  • Bob Maloy on 01 Mar 15
     
    Documents and images from pre-1914 to the post-war era.
Nate Merrill

The Diary of Arthur L. Linfoot - 3 views

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  • Nate Merrill on 15 Apr 14
     
    January 1914 - December 1918
David Hilton

National Library Digital Collections : About - 3 views

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  • David Hilton on 12 Dec 09
     
    * Lawrence Royal & Cabinet Collections The Lawrence Collection consists of 40,000 glass plate negatives from 1870-1914. The images were produced commercially and capture topographical scenes of that period throughout Ireland. The entire Lawrence Royal collection (10,784 plates) and part of the Lawrence Cabinet collection (2,040 plates) are available here to view online. * Poole Whole Plate Collection The Poole collection comprises 65,000 glass plate negatives and was created by the family firm of A.H. Poole in Waterford between 1884-1954. The majority of images in the collection are studio portraits but the Poole Whole Plate subset which consists of 5,119 images, reflects the diversity of the collection with studio portraits, social and political events and also images of architecture and industry in the south east of Ireland. * Independent H Collection The Independent Newspaper collection of some 300,000 images, is made up of glass plates, plastic negatives and a small number of prints. The Independent H collection is a subset of the collection and contains 3,250 glass plates negatives dating from 1912-1936. It provides a record of many aspects of 20th century Irish life, and is particularly strong in the coverage of politics and sport in Ireland.
  • David Hilton on 12 Dec 09
     
    A wide collection of images and documents (mainly newspapers, I think) on Irish life in the C19th and C20th.
Kay Cunningham

Welcome to the Imperial War Museum London Home Page - 4 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 24 Mar 10
     
    'IWM London, the headquarters of the Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from 1914 to the present day"'
David Korfhage

Europeana 1914-1918 - Explore stories - 6 views

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  • David Korfhage on 02 Feb 14
     
    An enormous, searchable archive of primary sources from the years of World War I--from Europe, the US, and New Zealand
  • Daniel Bernsen on 03 Feb 14
     
    Yes, it is a great project. If you are interested, here are some ideas how to start working with the collections in the classroom: http://geschichtsunterricht.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/working-with-the-europeana-1914-18-collections-in-the-history-classroom-part-13-scarcity-vs-abundance/
Betiana Caprioli

British Army war diaries 1914-1922 | The National Archives - 13 views

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  • These records are the war diaries of the first three cavalry and the first seven infantry divisions of the British Army in the First World War.
  • The digitised diaries cover activity in France and Belgium.
  • You can search the records in Discovery, our catalogue, by filling in the form below.
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  • Betiana Caprioli on 16 Jan 14
     
    Recently released diaries.
David Hilton

History Guide NG - 2 views

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  • David Hilton on 02 Oct 09
     
    2292 sources of C19th wisdom. That's a good question for the forum - can we learn from history? I might start a thread... I really need a life.
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

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    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
Kay Cunningham

Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in Smithsonian Collections - 3 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10
     
    Digitized versions of trade catalogs. Browse by company name, type of instrument, or category--acoustics, astronomy, balances, biology, chemistry, drawing instruments, education, electricity, engineering, geophysics, math, medical apparatus, meteorology, microscopy, natural history, natural philosophy, navigation, optics, photography, physics, spectroscopy, surveying. Images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only; see the Permissions link forfurther details. Provided by the Smithsonian Institution
  • Carrie Kotcho on 09 Apr 12
     
    Kay - saw your post and thought you'd be interested in the new set of scientific teaching collection videos we've (NMAH) posted on YouTube. We are in the middle creating a website for these videos, and we'll be adding more over the next year or so. http://www.youtube.com/user/SmithsonianAmHistory?ob=0&feature=results_main
David Hilton

Documents Related to the History of International Relations, prior to 1914 - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 10 Aug 09
     
    A comprehensive list of links to documents on all periods of history, mainly focussed on the West. Seeings this links to all sorts of sites there will probably be a few dead links but it purports to link to documents and is maintained out of a university so should be useful for research and study.
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