World War One

Resources for teaching, learning and research - made possible by Jisc

Welsh life, language and culture in WW1

WW1 poster: Another call "More men and still more until the enemy is crushed" Lord Kitchener

Centenary learning and teaching resources

Poster montage used to promote the World War 1 Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings project

Innovators, explorers, peacekeepers: discover the lives of serviceman and their families

Photograph of Lt Cdr Edward Courtney Boyle on deck of RN submarine E 14 (photograph stopped by censor)

Imperial War Museum collection

This substantial collection includes films and recordings from WW1.

Available via our MediaPlus service.

The great poets of WW1 - Owen, Graves, Brittain and more

Mapping WW1

War graves

With this series of Google maps, you can now visualise the Commonwealth cemeteries, burial plots and memorials across the globe for those who lost their lives as a result of World War One.

Flu pandemic

You can also view the map of the Spanish flu pandemic, which can be used as a simulator for teaching, made available by the same project.

Frame of Google map showing burial plots, cemeteries and memorials in Yorkshire

Augmented reality

Experience life underground during WW1

Simulation of life underground during World War I

3D simulation of gas warfare