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Words for Battle
The first episode of BBC Radio 4′s new documentary series, 1914-1918: The Cultural Front, is now available for listening. “Words for Battle” examines the response of the British literary and cultural...
View ArticleThe Blagasphere
[For my first post here at Oxford's World War One Centenary Blog, I've decided to skip a bit beyond the war itself and highlight an interesting moment from its surrounding cultural milieu. Blogging has...
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Chasing Lettow-Vorbeck — A Forgotten Catastrophe?
For those of you who have never read the articles at Cracked.com, I can’t say I would heartily recommend the experience. While they’re of some value, sometimes, in bringing to popular attention...
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The ‘Rape of Belgium’ Revisited
Image taken from ‘Scraps of Paper: German Proclamations in Belgium and France’ (1916), available at Archive.org. No known copyright. The above image is an extract from a proclamation by the German...
View ArticleThe Worst(?) Poem of the First World War
It would be fair to say, in a spirit of understatement, that the First World War served as the occasion for a certain amount of poetry. Catherine W. Reilly, in her groundbreaking English Poetry of the...
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Pen and Sword Pt. I: The Authors’ Declaration
[N.B. This is the first in an intended series of posts about the history of British propaganda efforts during the First World War. The main focus of the series will be on the literary side of things,...
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Pen and Sword Pt. II: Advertising King Albert’s Book
[N.B. This is the second in an intended series of posts about the history of British propaganda efforts during the First World War -- the inaugural post can be read here. The main focus of the series...
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Pen and Sword Pt. III: 5 Questions
[N.B. This is the third in a series of posts about the history of British propaganda efforts during the First World War -- the inaugural post can be read here. The main focus of the series will be on...
View ArticlePen and Sword Pt. IV: Yeats Refuses to Declare
[N.B. This is the fourth in a series of posts about the history of British propaganda efforts during the First World War -- the inaugural post can be read here. The main focus of the series will be on...
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Some Sounds of the War
The First World War’s cultural impact can be felt quite heavily in song as well as in literature and art. A distinction should first be cast between two different kinds of songs: those that were...
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