An Interactive First World War

Article contributed to the 'World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings' project.

The 'World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings' project ran with contributions from 2012 to 2020. It was an open-access online platform offering free-to-use materials under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike Licence. The project aimed to represent future directions in teaching First World War Studies, challenge existing misconceptions about the conflict, and reappraise the War in its social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. Contributions came from leading academic and non-academic experts, as well as student ambassadors, and include scholarly articles, short talks, lectures, ebooks, innovative computer models, and interactive maps. Funded by the JISC WW1 Open Educational Resources Programme and supported by the JISC 'Statement of Intent', this resource was a collaboration between the University of Oxford teams behind the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, the Great War Archive, and various other educational initiatives. The project's interdisciplinary approach and diverse materials aimed to bring the events, people, and places of World War I into sharp relief for educational and research purposes.