WW1 Websites

Africa

• Historical and contemporary material for the study of Africa, British Library (Institutional Website)

  Guides to the British Library’s Africa collections, including links to digitised materials.

  https://www.bl.uk/subjects/africa
  

• South African History Online (Institutional Website)

  An encyclopedia on South African history and art, including digitized collections.

  http://www.sahistory.org.za/
  

Australia

• 100 Years of Anzac, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs (Institutional Website)

  This website, run by the Australian Government's Department of Veterans' Affairs, commemorates Anzacs. It provides histories of Australia in World War I and II as well as teaching materials, and tells the stories of veterans.

  http://www.anzacportal.dva.gov.au/
  

• Australian War Memorial, The Australian War Memorial (Institutional Website)

  A digitalized collection of war diaries, documents, artwork, photographs, keepsakes and other items detailing the Australian experience of war in a number of different war and peacekeeping operations, including WWI.

  https://www.awm.gov.au/
  

• Australians at War Film Archive, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs (Institutional Website)

  The Film Archive “Australians at War” is an Australian Government initiative designed to film and record the stories of over two thousand war veterans who served from World War I to today in the Australian Defence Force.

  http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/
  

• Discovering Anzacs (Institutional Website)

  A selection of government records about Australian and New Zealand soldiers in WWI and the Boer War, courtesy of National Archives of Australia and Archives New Zealand, as well as personal users. Includes profiles of individual soldiers, nurses, and others; group stories; and photo galleries.

  http://www.discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/home/
  

• First World War Records, National Archives of Australia (Institutional Website)

  Provides digital records of non-operational aspects of Australian involvement in WWI; collection includes images, war correspondence, war diaries and internment camp records, etc.

  http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/conflicts.aspx
  

• Trove, National Library of Australia (Institutional Website)

  The Trove database offer 488,292,314 digitized historic books, images, newspapers, maps and more.

  http://trove.nla.gov.au/
  

Austria-Hungary

• 1914-1918 Hundert Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Institutional Website)

  Articles and images focusing on the Austrian involvement in the First World War.

  http://wk1.staatsarchiv.at/
  

• ANNO, Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften online (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) (Database)

  http://anno.onb.ac.at/
  

• Austria-Forum (Institutional Website)

  A German-language online encyclopedia containing a wealth of information about all things Austria. The site includes several different lexicons and dictionaries with tens of thousands of entries.

  http://austria-lexikon.at/
  

• Bildarchiv (Photo Archive), The National Austrian Library (Institutional Website)

  An online archive of multiple photo collections, including Europeana Travel, Rübelt-Negativarchiv and Esperanto, containing tens of thousands of photos.

  http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/default.aspx?card=bildarchiv&ausstellung=1695764
  

• Das Kriegstagebuch des Alfred Hermann Fried (Institutional Website)

  A digital version of the diaries kept by Austrian journalist and pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921).

  http://www.kriegstagebuch.at/
  

• Digitale Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich (Institutional Website)

  The Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich’s (State Library Upper Austria) collection of digitized texts and prints in public domain.

  http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/
  

• Erster Weltkrieg, Wienbibliothek (Institutional Website)

  The digital collection “Wienbibliothek Digital: Erster Weltkrieg” provides access to 116,000 newspaper cuttings as well as 1,600 posters and official proclamations about World War I. The website is in German.

  http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/nav/classification/454168
  

• Frontlines and Hinterland, Institute of Political History, Hungary (Institutional Website)

  Frontlines and Hinterland publishes Hungarian Great War newspaper and periodical excerpts alongside commentaries and short articles. Longer blogposts on selected issues supply the reader with a broader thematic overview. The website is available in English and Hungarian.

  http://elsovh.hu/english/
  

• Technisches Museum Wien mit Österreichischer Mediathek (Institutional Website)

  This website provides a timeline of World War I with audio-visual elements. The website is in German.

  http://www.mediathek.at/erster-weltkrieg
  

• The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy (Institutional Website)

  Online exhibition of Schloß Schönbrunn in Vienna, an innovatice approach to showcasing WW1 history.

  http://ww1.habsburger.net/en
  

Belgium

• 14-18, RTBF (Institutional Website)

  This website, provided by the RTBF, is a multimedia resource on the First World War in Belgium. The website is available is French and English.

  http://www.rtbf.be/14-18
  

• Archives 14-18 en Wallonie, Belgian National Archives (Institutional Website)

  A gateway to materials of the Wallon provinces of Belgium, including a small database of letters, photographs, posters, court records and more.

  http://14-18-wallonie.arch.be/
  

• In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium (Institutional Website)

  The museum’s website contains brief information on WWI in Flanders in French, Dutch, German and English, including a timeline, casualty database, short biographies and poems.

  http://www.inflandersfields.be/
  

• News of the Great War (Institutional Website)

  A digital collection of press material published in Belgium during the First World War. Users can browse through 360,000 pages worth of trench papers, underground press, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and leaflets.

  https://hetarchief.be/en

  http://www.14-18.bruxelles.be/index.php/en/
  

• The Belgian War Press (Institutional Website)

  The Belgian War Press presents a digitized collection of over 100 Belgian newspapers which were written or distributed secretly during the First and Second World Wars. In addition, the website offers information on clandestine Belgian newspapers as well as on Belgian press censored during the First World War.

  http://warpress.cegesoma.be/en
  

Canada & Newfoundland

• Canada

  • Canada and the First World War (Canadian War Museum) (Online Exhibition)

    An online exhibition that tells the story of Canada’s role in the First World War at the international, national, and personal levels. Comprehensive and filled with artifacts from the museum collection, the exhibition is also rich in teacher resources.

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/
    

  • Canada and the First World War, Library and Archives Canada (Institutional Website)

    A collection of documents, photographs and maps detailing Canadian involvement in WWI.

    http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/index-e.html
    

  • Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series, Active History (Institutional Website)

    Active History’s series of articles on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is broad in outlook, including subjectsas diverse as the war’s political impact, to its memory today and daily life on the home front.

    http://activehistory.ca/papers/canadas-first-world-war-a-centennial-series-on-activehistory-ca/
    

  • Canadian Letters and Images Project, Vancouver Island University, Department of History (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of the Canadian war experience (various wars, including WWI) as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. The collections include correspondence, diaries, photographs, postcards and other miscellaneous items. All correspondence has been transcribed, retaining the original spelling, punctuation and paragraph formatting. When available, the transcriptions are accompanied by scans of the original pages.

    http://www.canadianletters.ca
    

  • Héritage, Canadiana (Institutional Website)

    Héritage is a website containing digitalised archival items, including on First Nations and military history. Available in English and French.

    http://heritage.canadiana.ca/
    

  • Military History Research Centre, Canadian War Museum (Institutional Website)

    The online catalogue for the George Metcalf Archival Collectionand the Hartland Molson Library Collection. These extensive national collections of primary and secondary research material document Canada’s military history from the colonial period to the present, and are particularly strong in the First and Second World Wars.

    http://catalogue.warmuseum.ca/
    

  • The Archives of Ontario Remembers Our Canadian War Heroes, The Archives of Ontario (Institutional Website)

    A selection of letters, documents, drawings and photographs from the Archives’ WWI collections.

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/canvas/cwint01e.shtml
    

  • Wartime Canada (Institutional Website)

    The educational website “Wartime Canada” features photographs, advertisements, music scores, cartoons, and many other documents that provide insight into Canadians' lives in wartime. The items are organized into ten different categories (e.g. fighting, eating, and working) and accompanied by a brief description. The website is available in French and English.

    http://wartimecanada.ca/
    

• Newfoundland

  • Newfoundland and the Great War, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site (Institutional Website)

    A guide to the Newfoundland experience of the First World War. The website is divided into four sections: articles, images, audio and video.

    http://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/home.html
    

  • Newfoundland Regiment History, Newfoundland’s Grand Banks (Institutional Website)

    This website provides transcripts of Newfoundland military documentation from World Wars I and II. The website also hosts photographs and lists the burial sites of soldiers.

    http://ngb.chebucto.org/NFREG/index_main.shtml
    

  • The Newfoundland Regiment and the Great War, The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador (Institutional Website)

    This website tells the story of the Newfoundland Regiment in World War I. It includes photographs, maps and war diaries, which are integrated into the articles. It also hosts a database containing the military files of many of the regiment’s soldiers.

    http://www.rnr.therooms.ca/part1_entering_the_great_war.asp
    

East Asia

• Basel Mission Archives (Institutional Website)

  The photographic archives of the Basel Mission in Ghana, India, China, Cameroon and Borneo.

  http://www.bmarchives.org/
  

Eastern Europe

• Digital Resources of the Herder Institut für Historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung (Institutional Website)

  The Herder Institute für Historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung provides archival resources and articles, as well as databases and catalogues on the history of East Central Europe. The website includes a number of resources on the period of the First World War and the interwar period in East Central Europe.

  https://www.herder-institut.de/dokumente-und-materialien/
  

• Estonia

  • Eestlased Esimeses maailmasõjas (Estonians in the First World War) (Institutional Website)

    A crowd-sourced project organized by the Estonian National Archives to gather information on the 100,000 Estonians who fought or otherwise participated in the First World War. The website is in Estonian.

    http://www.ra.ee/ilmasoda/
    

  • Estonian Film Archives (Institutional Website)

    More than 600 archives have registered and digitized their material. The growing archive contains over 275 000 film, photo, and video sources.

    http://www.filmi.arhiiv.ee/index.php?lang=eng
    

  • Fotis, Rahvusarhiiv, The National Archives of Estonia (Institutional Website)

    The photographic database of the National Archives of Estonia. Website available in English and Estonian, records in Estonian.

    http://www.ra.ee/fotis/
    

European Neutrals

• Denmark

  • 1914-1918 Hverdagsliv i krigens skygge (1914-1918 Everyday life in the shadow of war), Skoletjenesten Københavns Befæstning og Greve Museum (Institutional Website)

    The website “1914-1918 Hverdagsliv i krigens skygge“ (1914-1918 Everyday life in the shadow of war) focuses on the impact of the First World War on Denmark. It is divided into eight categories. The website is in Danish.

    http://1914-1918.dk/
    

  • Den Store Krig (The Great War) (Institutional Website)

    Den Store Krig (The Great War) aims to tell the story of Southern Jutland and South Jutlanders in the First World War. The website is in Danish.

    http://www.denstorekrig1914-1918.dk/
    

  • Første Verdenskrig 1914-1918 (First World War 1914-1918), Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Institutional Website)

    This project explores Danish neutrality in the First World War. It aims to show the many different grounds for neutrality through describing the lives of seven different people. The website is in Danish.

    http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/tema/historie/ww1/index.html
    

• Luxembourg

  • Luxemburgensia online, The National Library of Luxembourg (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of the Luxembourg National Library’s collection of newspapers, periodicals, literature, reference works and post cards. Of primary relevance for WWI research is the postcard collection.

    http://www.luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/home.pl
    

  • Éischte Weltkrich: Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg (Institutional Website)

    https://ww1.lu/?lang=en
    

• The Netherlands

  • Amsterdam en de Eerste Wereldoorlog (Stadsarchief Amsterdam) (Database)

    http://amsterdam-eerstewereldoorlog.nl/
    

  • Beeldbank, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief (Institutional Website)

    The database of digitalized images from the Amsterdam city archives, in Dutch.

    http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/
    

  • Dutch newspaper database 1618-1995, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Historische Kranten (Institutional Website)

    A collection of Dutch newspapers from 1618 to 1995; Dutch-language only.

    http://kranten.kb.nl
    

  • Louis Raemaekers Foundation (Institutional Website)

    http://louisraemaekers.com/
    

  • Memory of the Netherlands (Memory of the Netherlands) (Database)

    http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/en
    

• Norway

• Spain

  • Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Institutional Website)

    The Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers has digitized thousands of historical newspapers from the Spanish-speaking world and includes the ability to search for any word on any page of any digital newspaper.

    http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/HemerotecaDigital/
    

• Sweden

  • DigitaltMuseum, KulturIT (Institutional Website)

    DigitaltMuseum hosts the digitised collections of numerous museums in Norway and Sweden. The object descriptions are in various languages, while the website is available in Norwegian, Swedish, and English.

    https://digitaltmuseum.no/
    

• Switzerland

  • 14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards), Université de Fribourg (Institutional Website)

    The digital collection “14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards)” was created at the Université de Fribourg with postcards from the holdings of the Swiss National Library in Bern. The postcards have been arranged around six themes, for example “propaganda & ideology” and “humour & satire”. The website is in French.

    http://14-18.ch/
    

  • Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland) (Institutional Website)

    The online database “Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland)” provides many digitised official documents as well as information on people and organisations that were active in Swiss foreign policy. The website is available in English, German, French and Italian.

    http://www.dodis.ch/en
    

  • Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (Institutional Website)

    The Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland offers thematic, geographic and biographic articles with the latest research on Switzerland’s history.

    http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/index.php
    

  • Memobase (Institutional Website)

    Digitalized collection of over 100,000 audio and visual files from thirty-nine Swiss cultural institutions. Objects can be browsed by time period (including 1910-1919), format, or genre, or searched by keyword.

    http://www.memobase.ch/de#find/facets[date-facet]=[1910-1919]
    

  • The Swiss Federal Archives on Wikimedia Commons (Institutional Website)

    The Swiss Federal Archives has made its collection of hundreds of photos from Switzerland during the First World War accessible online. The photos are primarily of military-related topics.

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Swiss_Federal_Archives
    

France

• 14-18, Une Guerre Photographique (Institutional Website)

  “14-18, Une Guerre Photographique” provides issues of a “photo-illustrated weekly” as well as an essay on photographic methods during the war. Available in French and English.

  http://www.uneguerrephotographique.eu/fr/miroir-menu.php
  

• Archives Photographiques, La Médiathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Institutional Website)

  The online, French-language photo archive provide access to photograph negatives from various wars, including WWI

  http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/
  

• Digitale Bibliothèque Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Institutional Website)

  A digitalization project containing millions of documents, books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, notes and audio clips from the French national library

  http://gallica.bnf.fr/
  

• French World War I Posters, University of Illinois Library (Institutional Website)

  This website presents digitised versions of 105 posters from the University of Illinois Archives that have been published in France during the First World War. Each poster is accompanied by a transcription of the French text and an English translation.

  http://guides.library.illinois.edu/french-wwi-posters
  

• Grand Mémorial (Institutional Website)

  Digitized federal and regional documents from the French Ministry of Culture including military registration papers, military news bulletins, and a database of monuments and other commemorative sites. The website and all documents are in French.

  http://www.culture.fr/Genealogie/Grand-Memorial
  

• La Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale (Institutional Website)

  La Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale was founded in 2012 by the French government to organize, coordinate, and publicize commemorations of the First World War. Contents are available in French, English, and German.

  http://centenaire.org/fr
  

• Les marchés de guerre 14-18 (Institutional Website)

  A digital collection of files on war markets (1914-1918) created by the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and its Centre des Archives Économiques et Financières (CAEF) at Savigny-le-Temple. It provide unprecedented insights into economic activity during the First World War.

  https://www.economie.gouv.fr/caef-marches-publics-14-18
  

• Material on the First World War from the collections of the Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) on Flickr. (Institutional Website)

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/98069937@N05/
  

• Plateforme 14/18, une famille dans la Grande Guerre (Institutional Website)

  The site hosts the letters and photographs exchanged among members of the Résal family during the First World War. A number of essays – on themes ranging from women’s involvement in the war effort to wartime postal services – also provide historical context. The website is in French.

  http://www.plateforme1418.com/introduction
  

• Première Guerre mondiale, album numérique 14-18 (Institutional Website)

  A digital album dedicated to the Great War, with thousands of still images and videos including photographs, movies, posters, brochures, calendars, postcards, letters, notebooks, drawings, prints, administrative and military documents, maps and aerial views.

  http://www.imagesde14-18.eu
  

• Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France, Comité Régional de Tourisme en Nord-Pas de Calais (Institutional Website)

  The website can be navigated via a map, timeline or different thematic chapters. The articles include external links and archive pictures and are available in French, English, German and Dutch.

  http://www.remembrancetrails-northernfrance.com/
  

• Testaments de guerre de poilus parisiens (1914-1918) (Institutional Website)

  A digital collection of wills created by soldiers from Paris during the First World War. The 134 wills edited here are kept at the Archives nationales de France

  http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/testaments-de-poilus/
  

• The Bibliotheque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine (BDIC) (Institutional Website)

  The Bibliotheque de Documentation Internationale Contemporainehas an important collection of photographs, newspapers, and objects related to the First World War, some of which is now available online.

  http://www.bdic.fr/la-bdic-et-la-grande-guerre
  

• Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (Institutional Website)

  A collection of stereoscopic photographs taken by Paul Jean Gaston Darrot between 1914 and 1919. Images include battlefield scenes from across the Western Front, landscapes, transport and materiel, and American army camp life.

  http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/showThumb.aspx?qs=1&qm=15&q=darrot
  

General Information

• Blog about Digital Projects on the First World War, Otto Vervaart (Institutional Website)

  Historian Otto Vervaart’s blog presents various digital projects and resources concerning the First World War.

  http://digital1418.wordpress.com/
  

• Carnet du Centre International de Recherche, Histoire(s) de 14-18 (Institutional Website)

  This French-language blog details the activities of the International Center of Research on the Great War and offers updates on the latest WWI research.

  http://1418.hypotheses.org/
  

• Centenary News (Institutional Website)

  The website provides news and information about the 2014-2018 First World War Centenary and contains news items, videos, details of events, educational resources, and links to articles and blogs.

  http://www.centenarynews.com
  

• Europe commemorates World War I, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Institutional Website)

  euro|topics provides a press review of the commemoration of World War I in Europe. The review is available in English, French and German.

  http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/debatten/links_2014-02-ersterweltkrieg/
  

• Europeana 1914-1918 (Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten), European Union (Institutional Website)

  A collection of (photographed) daily objects, as well as digitalized posters, maps, letters, photographs and other items, with accompanying descriptions and background information.

  http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
  

• Historial de La Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War) (Institutional Website)

  The website of the Museum of the Great War located in Péronne, France.

  http://www.historial.org/
  

• History Guide (Institutional Website)

  A subject catalogue of recommended websites for historians. The catalogue includes metadata from approximately 11,000 websites, including the Clio-Online web directory.

  https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/geisteswissenschaften-und-theologie/geschichtswissenschaft/his
  

• International Society for First World War Studies (Institutional Website)

  The website of the International Society for First World War Studies, the largest network of WWI scholars worldwide, provides WWI news, information about upcoming events, job and funding announcements, and a fast-growing collaborative bibliography of First World War Studies.

  http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org
  

• La Grande Guerre (Institutional Website)

  Blog about World War I-related research and events at the German Historical Institute Paris.

  http://grandeguerre.hypotheses.org/
  

• Making War, Mapping Europe: Militarized Cultural Encounters, 1792-1920 (Institutional Website)

  This project explored the experiences of German, British and French soldiers stationed on the European periphery and in the Middle East, as well as the continuing impact these encounters had on the societies of their respective home countries.

  http://www.mwme.eu/
  

• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, Sciences Po (Institutional Website)

  The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century.

  http://www.massviolence.org/
  

• The Great War, Youtube Channel (Institutional Website)

  "The Great War" is a documentary series on YouTube. Each week its host Indy Neidell follows the events of the First World as they happened 100 years ago.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
  

• World War I Centenary, University of Oxford JISC (Institutional Website)

  This website has a collection of educational materials (articles, images, interactive maps, audio and video lectures, and ebooks) on World War I. It uses cross-disciplinary themes to examine the cultural, social, geographical and historical context of the war.

  http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
  

• Zeitmaschine 14/18 (Institutional Website)

  This website allows visitors to experience some of the elements of World War I first hand. The visitors of the site can choose a virtual character and determine their nationality, age and gender. They are then shown what this character might have felt, heard, tasted, smelt or seen. The website is available in French and German.

  http://was-waere-wenn.14-tagebuecher.de/index
  

Germany

• 100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Institutional Website)

  This website hosts the First World War Collection of the Deutsche Bücherei. The collection has been partially digitized and published along with short explanatory articles. The website is available in English and German.

  http://erster-weltkrieg.dnb.de/WKI/Web/EN/Home/home.html
  

• 100 Titel "Baden im Ersten Weltkrieg", Badische Landesbibliothek (Institutional Website)

  The Badische Landesbibliothek (BLB) is digitizing 100 books and brochures either published in or about Baden during the war. The books are in German.

  http://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/Drucke/nav/classification/1300074
  

• 100 Years First World War: Against Forgetting, German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) (Institutional Website)

  This project from the German War Graves Commission offers a variety of online material, ranging from virtual memorial exhibitions, photos and educational materials on the First World War to a search engine of German war graves and memorial sites.

  http://www.100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg.eu/
  

• 100(0) Schlüsseldokumente zur deutschen Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (Institutional Website)

  100(0) Key Documents on German History in the Twentieth Century compiles selected audio-visual sources. Introductory comments explain the relevance of the source, the current state of scholarly research and advice on further reading. The documents can be accessed as full texts and as photocopies of original facsimiles.

  http://www.1000dokumente.de/
  

• 1914 - Mitten in Europa. Das Rheinland und der Erste Weltkrieg, Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Institutional Website)

  This project commemorates World War I with events, publications and online exhibitions about the war in Rhineland, Germany. The website is in German.

  http://www.lvr.de/de/nav_main/kultur/berdasdezernat_1/1914/1914_1.jsp
  

• 1914-1918 Der Erste Weltkrieg im Spiegel hessischer Regionalzeitungen, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Institutional Website)

  A collection of regional newspapers from Hessia during the First World War.

  http://hwk1.hebis.de/1914/
  

• Der Erste Weltkrieg, 1914 – Der Weg ins Verderben, ZDF (Institutional Website)

  This timeline contains pictures, video material and articles about World War I. The timeline is in German.

  http://www.1914.zdf.de/
  

• Der Erste Weltkrieg, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Institutional Website)

  A collection of articles on the First World War with accompanying videos and pictures. The website is in German.

  http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/deutsche-geschichte/ersterweltkrieg/
  

• Der Erste Weltkrieg, LeMo, Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) (Institutional Website)

  An educational resource providing background information on WWI, sponsored by the German Historical Museum.

  http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/wk1/
  

• Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern (DGDB)/German History in Documents and Images (GHDI): Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918), Edited by Prof. Roger Chickering and Dr. Steven Chase Gummer with Seth Rotramel (Institutional Website)

  A comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present. The project comprises ten sections, one of which addresses Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918). Each section includes an introduction to key developments in Germany's social, political, and cultural history during the period, as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and maps.

  http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=11&language=german
  

• Die Julikrise 1914 in den Akten des Auswärtigen Amts (Institutional Website)

  Digitalized documents on the July Crisis from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. This material is in German.

  https://archiv.diplo.de/arc-de/im-archiv-forschen/03a-1-julikrise-1914
  

• Digitaler Bestandskatalog (digital inventory), Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (Institutional Website)

  An online inventory of more than 30,000 items held by the Germanic National museum, the largest museum of cultural history within the German-speaking region.

  http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/
  

• Erster Weltkrieg, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Institutional Website)

  This feature in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” commemorates the First World War. The newspaper is in German.

  http://www.sueddeutsche.de/thema/Erster_Weltkrieg
  

• First World War Commemoration Website Ettlingen, Germany (Institutional Website)

  A local initiative from the town of Ettlingen, this website offers photos, soldiers’ letters from the battlefield, diaries, newspaper articles, and material cultural objects documenting the experience of soldiers from Ettlingen in the First World War.

  http://www.ettlingenww1.blogspot.de
  

• German documents of the First World War (Institutional Website)

  This collection includes 36,000 pages of institutional documents from the German General Staff, staffs, military units, the Prussian War Ministry, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others.

  http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org
  

• German Picture Post Cards from World War I, zeno.org (Institutional Website)

  An online collection of picture postcards from WWI, grouped by categories such as regimental jobs and beer and games

  http://www.zeno.org/Bildpostkarten/M/Erster+Weltkrieg
  

• Grosser Bilderatlas des Weltkrieges, University of Wisconsin (Institutional Website)

  The University of Wisconsin provides three editions of the “Grosser Bilderatlas des Weltkrieges”, from 1915, 1916 and 1919. The atlas is in German.

  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=HISTORY.BILDERATL
  

• HGIS Germany, Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz (IEG)/Institut für Raumbezogene Informations- und Messtechnik (i3mainz) der Fachhochschule Mainz (Institutional Website)

  A geographic information system that displays, stores and analyses data of past geographies and track changes in time. It covers Germany and Central Europe from 1820 onwards.

  http://hgisg.i3mainz.hs-mainz.de/intro/index.html
  

• Historische Bestände- digital, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (Institutional Website)

  The University of Heidelberg digital collection contains a wealth of historical sources including a large collection of German books, newspapers and magazines.

  http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html
  

• Image Collection of the German Colonial Society, University Library, Frankfurt a. M. (Institutional Website)

  The collection comprises of approx. 50,000 images and covers the following regions: Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, China, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Micronesia, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Western Samoa.

  http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
  

• Images from the Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) on Wikimedia Commons (Institutional Website)

  A collection of more than 80,000 image files relating to German history, uploaded by the German Federal Archives to Wikimedia Commons in 2008.

  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
  

• Library of Contemporary History: First World War Portal (Institutional Website)

  The Library of Contemporary History (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, BfZ) is the biggest special library of the history and politics of the 20th century in Germany. The library has been marking the centenary of the First World War with launching a First World War Portal (Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg). The portal provides information on the library’s activities and digital collections concerning the Great War.

  http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/bibliothek-fuer-zeitgeschichte/themenportal-erster-weltkr
  

• Maueranschläge, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (Institutional Website)

  A collection of ordinances posted by the German army and military government. Some 2,500 of the 2,700 digitized ordinances are from the First World War.

  https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=5544
  

• Objektdatenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) (Institutional Website)

  An online database containing more than 18,000 documents, maps, posters, postcards, photographs and other items, sponsored by the German Historical Museum.

  http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/
  

• The Bundesarchiv’s (German Federal Archive) portal on the First World War (Institutional Website)

  This portal on the First World War has an impressive digitized collection of over 700,000 documents and photos related to World War I. The website also contains a number of online galleries that focus on specific aspects and events of the war, as well as a collection of panoramic photos from the war.

  https://www.ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/
  

• Themenbibliothek Erster Weltkrieg und Novemberrevolution, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) (Institutional Website)

  A digital research tool providing access to the Bavarian State Library’s World War collection (founded in 1914) as well as its extensive research literature corpus on the Great War and subsequent German November Revolution.

  https://www.historicum.net/metaopac/start.do?View=wk1
  

• Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg, Clio-online (Institutional Website)

  A continually updated database of new research and digitized sources on World War I, focusing on the effect of the war on German and European history. The website is in German.

  http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/site/lang__de-DE/1/Default.aspx
  

Great Britain and Ireland

• Great Britain

  • British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent (Institutional Website)

    The British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library holds collections by overthree hundredcartoonists.Many of these have been digitised and catalogued, and can be found among the 170,000 digitized items on the BCA website.

    http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
    

  • First World War in Focus, National Army Museum, London (Institutional Website)

    Discover personal stories from the National Army Museum’s Collection demonstrating the impact of the war. Explore an interactive global map, timeline and further sources.

    http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/
    

  • First World War Official Photographs, National Library of Scotland (Institutional Website)

    An easily searchable and extensive collection of photographs from the First World War.

    http://digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/?browse=yes
    

  • First World War Project of The National Archives (Institutional Website)

    Offers a vast collection of digitized images and documents on British involvement in the First World War. The collection includes digitized soldiers’ service and pension records, British war diaries, Women’s Auxiliary Service records, to name just a few.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/
    

  • First World War Volunteers British Red Cross (Institutional Website)

    The database contains the records of some 90,000 volunteers who served in the United Kingdom and on the European continent.

    http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War
    

  • HANSARD 1803-2005, Hansard Digitization Project, Directorate of Information Services of the House of Commons & the Library of the House of Lords (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of British parliamentary debates, written answers and statements, Lords and Grand Committee reports, lists of speakers, constituencies, offices, acts, bills, and divisions, digitalized by Hansard, the Official Report of debates in the British Parliament.

    http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/
    

  • Imperial War Museums Collections (Database)

    http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search
    

  • Lions Led by Donkeys, University of Birmingham (Institutional Website)

    This project documents British generals in the First World War. A career description has been written for each general, detailing matters such as their recruitment, promotion and dismissal.

    http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/research/projects/lionsdonkeys/index.as
    

  • Scotland’s First World War Sites, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (Institutional Website)

    Database of nearly 1,200 locations in Scotland each containing a varying quantity of images. Search catalogues for prints, drawings and manuscripts as well as specific subjects such as training trenches, airfields, hospitals, monuments, objects and maritime items.

    https://canmore.org.uk/site/search?keyword=first+world+war&sort_typ=collectionCount&sort_ord=-1
    

  • The Cabinet Papers 1915-1986, The National Archives (Institutional Website)

    A selection of British cabinet papers from 1915 to 1986. The documents are divided into three categories: The United Kingdom and the World; The Economy, Business and Resources; and Society and the Welfare State.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/default.htm
    

  • The First World War Poetry Archive, University of Oxford (Institutional Website)

    An online repository of more than 7,000 items of text, images, audio and video. The archive consists of collections of primary material from major poets of the period. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artifacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public (see “The Great War Archive” at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/), and a set of specially developed educational resources.

    http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
    

  • The First World War: Sources for History, National Archives & the Imperial War Museum (Institutional Website)

    The online exhibition makes available a selection of varied WWI source material (documents, film and sound) held by The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum. The main galleries, “The First World War, 1914-18” and “Aftermath,” feature documents giving an overview of the overall history of the war and its consequences. “Britain and the War” looks at its effect on Britain. “The Military Conflict” provides examples of records relating to the fighting, while “Service Records for the First World War” introduces visitors to the main categories of service records.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm
    

  • World War One Website of the British Library (Institutional Website)

    This website contains numerous articles, digitized sources, photos, and teaching materials on all topics related to World War One. It has a particularly extensive section devoted to the historiography of the First World War.

    http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/historical-debates
    

  • World Wars, World War One, BBC History (Institutional Website)

    A collection of articles on the causes, events and people of WWI, as well as virtual tours, animated maps and other, largely copyrighted, material such as photographs.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
    

• Ireland

  • Century Ireland 1913-1923 (Institutional Website)

    An online historical newspaper that tells the story of Irish life a century ago. News reporting on life in Ireland is supported by a wealth of visual, archival and contextual material to facilitate an understanding of the complexities of Irish life 100 years ago.

    http://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
    

  • Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy (Institutional Website)

    A gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge, with a small collection of WWI material.

    http://dho.ie/
    

  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy (Institutional Website)

    An online collection of original documents concerning Irish foreign policy, including many on WWI

    http://www.difp.ie/
    

  • Ireland WWI (Institutional Website)

    An information hub and networking forum for scholars, projects, and organizations studying Ireland’s role in the First World War, including centenary commemorations. Features profiles of researchers, academic and public projects, and related museums and associations, as well as a bibliography of relevant titles and a list of educational resources.

    http://www.irelandww1.org/
    

  • It’s a Long Way to Tipperary: An Irish Story of the Great War, University of Limerick (Institutional Website)

    This online exhibition charts the lives of the Armstrong family from Moyaliffe, Co. Tipperary, Ireland during the First World War, beginning in late June 1914. Readers can relive the experience of this family in wartime through weekly updates from their diaries and letters.

    http://longwaytotipperary.ul.ie/
    

  • Letters of 1916, Maynooth University (Institutional Website)

    A crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916).

    http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie
    

  • Soldiers’ Wills, The National Archives of Ireland (Institutional Website)

    A digitized collection of the wills of Irish soldiers who died while serving in the British Army. The majority of wills date from World War I.

    http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp
    

  • The 1916 Rising: Personalities & Perspectives (National Library of Ireland) (Online Exhibition)

    http://www.nli.ie/1916/exhibition/en/
    

  • Treaty Exhibition, The National Archives of Ireland (Institutional Website)

    The Treaty Exhibition draws upon the rich documentary holdings of original Irish Government records held in the National Archives on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

    http://treaty.nationalarchives.ie/
    

Home Front

• Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (Institutional Website)

  Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime is a collection of English and American wartime resources on cooking, gardening and nutrition. It includes titles such as “The eat-less-meat book, war ration cookery”, “Victory breads” and “Preserve eggs for winter use”.

  http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HumanEcol/WWIHomeCook
  

• Women

  • BBC Special on Women and World War One, BBC (Institutional Website)

    This BBC special deeply probes experiences of Britisch women durin the First Wolrd War. It examines their roles on the home front, in factories and workplaces, as well as the war's lasting impact on women.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z9bf9j6
    

India

• Empire, Faith & War (Institutional Website)

  A database of family memories, memorabilia and archival records of Sikhs in WW1 developed with the help of members of the community in their role as citizen historians.

  http://www.empirefaithwar.com/
  

• India and the Great War (USI-MEA Centenary Commemoration Project) (Institutional Website)

  http://www.indiaww1.in/
  

Italy

• BSMC - Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea (Institutional Website)

  Collection of photographs, postcards, prints, paintings, manifests, periodicals, journals and other significant documents

  http://digiteca.bsmc.it/
  

• L'Università di Torino nella Grande Guerra (Institutional Website)

  L'Università di Torino's digital collection of First World War documents and images.

  http://www.grandeguerra.unito.it/
  

• La Grande Guerra 1914-1918, L'Espresso (Institutional Website)

  A digital collection of Italian diaries during the First World War, which are searchable by theme, author or location.

  http://espresso.repubblica.it/grandeguerra/index.php
  

• La Grande Guerra più 100 (Institutional Website)

  “La Grande Gurra più 100” provides an online calender which follows the war month for month, one hundred years later. The calender has a narrative as well as historical material. The website is in Italian.

  http://www.lagrandeguerrapiu100.it/
  

• Prima guerra mondiale, Archivio centrale dello stato (Institutional Website)

  A collection of Italian First World War photographs.

  http://dati.acs.beniculturali.it/PrimaGuerraMondiale/
  

• Trentino Grande Guerra (Institutional Website)

  The official website of the Autonomous Province of Trento for the Centenary of the First World War cared for by the Italian Historical Museum of War in Rovereto.

  http://www.trentinograndeguerra.it/
  

• Vedere la Grande Guerra- Immagini della prima guerra mondiale (Museo Centrale del Risorgimento) (Image)

  http://movio.beniculturali.it/mcrr/immaginidellagrandeguerra/
  

• “14 18. documenti e immagini della grande Guerra”, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Institutional Website)

  Documents from contemporary popular journals and contemporary photographs relating to the WWI, focusing on the Italian Army and the Italian front.

  http://www.14-18.it/
  

Latin America

• Bisher, Jamie: World War I in Latin America (Weebly) (Primary Source)

  http://ww1latinamerica.weebly.com/
  

Media

• English Words in War-Time, Tracking Language on the Move in WW1 (Institutional Website)

  In a series of blogs, the ‘English Words in War-Time’ project tracks a detailed and largely unexamined record of language by Andrew Clark on the Home Front, and the reporting of war in a critical period of social and historical change.

  https://wordsinwartime.wordpress.com/
  

• Languages and the First World War (Institutional Website)

  Languages and the First World War is a cross-disciplinary research project exploring change within languages and how languages influenced each other during a period of crisis and conflict.

  https://languagesandthefirstworldwar.wordpress.com/
  

• Audio

  • 100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, 1914/2014, Deutschlandradio (Institutional Website)

    This website commemorates the First World War with articles and essays, which can be read, listened to online or downloaded as podcasts. The website is in German.

    http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg.1952.de.html
    

  • Library of Congress, National Jukebox, Historical Recordings (Institutional Website)

    The National Jukebox of the Library of Congress makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.

    http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
    

  • The Virtual Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (Institutional Website)

    The Virtual Gramophone hosts a sample of Canadian music from the First World War. It also provides biographical articles of musicians with digitized historical material which explain the musical developments of the time.

    http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/028011-3010-e.html
    

• Cartoons

  • JM’s World War One Sketchbooks (Institutional Website)

    A collection of illustrations from a set of two World War One sketchbooks uploaded by the University of Victoria’s Special Collections Library. The collection contains watercolour and pen and ink images produced by a British soldier stationed in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/128520551@N04/sets/72157653843591602
    

  • The Daily Telegraph war cartoons (Institutional Website)

    A collection of First World War cartoons from the Daily Telegraph, uploaded to Flickr by the State Library of New South Wales.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/sets/72157660808732151
    

• Correspondence

  • Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (Institutional Website)

    A collection of German armed forces’ correspondence with friends and family from 1914-1918.

    http://www.exponate-online.de/e_exponat.asp?a=1&e=27
    

• Diaries

  • Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front, The National Archives and The Imperial War Museum (Institutional Website)

    Thisproject has digitized 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries from the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War. Its crowd-sourcing features allow users to help tag and classify the collection.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-unit-war-diaries.htm
    

  • Tagebücher, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (Institutional Website)

    The Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart hosts four diaries of participants in World War I, as well as some letters. The materials are in German.

    http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/?id=6857
    

• Film

  • 1914-1918, ARD (Institutional Website)

    This media library provides television programmes and articles about the First World War. The website is in German.

    http://www.ard.de/home/wissen/ARD_de_Spezial_100_Jahre_Erster_Weltkrieg_1914___1918/629098/index
    

  • Colonial Film. Moving Images of the British Empire, Arts and Humanities Research Council (Institutional Website)

    The colonial film archives contain footage from the former British empire, including reports on the First World War.

    http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/home
    

  • Der moderne Krieg im Film/Modern War on Screen, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum Osnabrück (Institutional Website)

    This database presents information on international war and anti-war films of all genres, from feature films to documentaries. It provides details (title, year of production, director, actors, etc.) as well as film abstracts and short biographies of those participating. Furthermore, the database offers information on the films’ whereabouts in national archives, their availability on various media platforms, and selected bibliographic references. A detailed keyword-index enables searching by war, topic, motif or certain film-specific expressions.

    http://www.krieg-film.de/
    

  • Erster Weltkrieg, Filmportal (Institutional Website)

    A collection of German video footage from the First World War.

    https://www.filmportal.de/videos?field_video_title_value=&field_video_thema_target_id%5B689%5D=6
    

  • Estonian Film Archives (Institutional Website)

    More than 600 archives have registered and digitized their material. The growing archive contains over 275 000 film, photo, and video sources.

    http://www.eha.ee/fa/public//index.php?lang=en&lch=2&lch_gen=2&act=default&nocache=142199868
    

  • European Film Gateway (Institutional Website)

    The EFG Portal provides access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

    http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/
    

  • Focus on film: The Great War, National Archives Learning Curve (Institutional Website)

    A collection of short clips with background information from The National Archives’ Film Archives. The material is predominantly from 1915-16 and focuses on the Battle of the Somme.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/film-archive/archive.asp?catID=2&subCa
    

  • WW1 – The Definitive Collection, British Pathé (Institutional Website)

    The British Pathé was a film, newsreel and music company founded in Britain in 1910, and is now a newsreel archive containing 85,000 films. Its World War I archive is sorted into over 50 categories and contains more than 100 historical films.

    https://www.britishpathe.com/groupitem/56/
    

• Literature & Poetry

  • Sassoon Journals (University of Cambridge Digital Library) (Database)

    http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon
    

• Maps

  • Atlas of World War I, Wikimedia Commons (Institutional Website)

    This atlas on Wikimedia Commons contains maps of the progression of the First World War, organised by location, date and battle.

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_World_War_I
    

  • Map Archive, University of Halle-Wittenberg (Institutional Website)

    A German-language collection of more than 100,000 maps, including many relating to WWI

    http://bibliothek.uni-halle.de/sammlungen/kartensammlung/
    

  • The Geography of the Great War, Frank McMurray, Internet Archive (Institutional Website)

    Digitized copy of the 1919 edition of Frank McMurray’s book The Geography of the Great War, containing various maps, photos, and charts listing population and military statistics.

    https://archive.org/details/geographyofgreat00inmcmu
    

  • World War I, David Rumsey Map Collection, Cartography Associates (Institutional Website)

    A digitized sample (32,000 items) of the David Rumsey Map Collection (150,000 maps), allowing viewers to access and then compare, analyze and view items in new and experimental ways. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, but also has maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, and more. Items range from about 1700 to the 1950s.

    http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/9p93g9
    

• Newspapers & Magazines

  • Aera (Institutional Website)

    In 2014, the magazine Aera republished newspaper articles that had been published exactly 100 years ago in Germany.

    http://www.aera-magazin.de/
    

  • Die Kriegssammlung der Fürstlichen Bibliothek Detmold, Lippische Landesbibliothek (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of 42 German soldier newspapers from World War I, digitalized by the Lippe State Library (Lippische Landesbibliothek).

    http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/llb/nav/classification/1086972
    

  • Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg – online, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of 19 German and French language “trench papers” from World War I, digitalized and published by the University of Heidelberg Library.

    http://feldzeitungen.uni-hd.de
    

  • Jüdische Periodika 1806-1938, Compact Memory, RWTH Aachen University (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of Jewish newspapers and periodicals from 1806 to 1938.

    http://www.compactmemory.de/
    

  • Liste der digitalisierten Zeitungen, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Institutional Website)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin provides digital copies of 171 German and foreign German-language newspapers. The database and newspapers are in German.

    http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/
    

  • Luxemburgensia online, The National Library of Luxembourg (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of the Luxembourg National Library’s collection of newspapers, periodicals, literature, reference works and post cards. Of primary relevance for WWI research is the postcard collection.

    http://www.luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/home.pl?
    

  • Photo Archive, LIFE Magazine (Institutional Website)

    World War I photographs in the LIFE photo archive, hosted by Google.

    http://images.google.com/search?q=World+War+I+source:life&biw=1680&bih=899&sei=H6tDT7CyDZHHsga4j
    

  • World War I Centennial Gallery (Institutional Website)

    An online archive of over 600 articles from English-language magazines that focus on various aspects of the First World War. All articles were published between 1914 and 1918.

    http://www.worldwargallery.com
    

  • Zeitungen, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn (Institutional Website)

    The University and State Library of Bonn provides access to digitalised newspapers from the Rhine region. The database and newspapers are in German.

    http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/nav/classification/229854
    

• Pamphlets

  • World War I Pamphlet Collection, Penn Libraries (Institutional Website)

    This collection of World World I pamphlets, hosted by Penn Libraries, contains pamphlets from America, Britain, France and Sweden.

    http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/print/search.html?fq=collection_facet%3A%22World%20War%20I%20Pa
    

  • World War I Pamphlet Collection, UNCG Digital Collections (Institutional Website)

    This collection of 412 pamphlets from the First World War contains pamphlets on military campaigns, women's labour and civilian support of the war.

    http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/worldwaripamphlets
    

• Photographs

  • LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource (Institutional Website)

    LUCERNA is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century. This database includes details of slide sets, slide images, readings and other texts related to slide sets, lantern hardware, people and organisations involved in lantern history, and much more, including slides from the First World War.

    http://slides.uni-trier.de/series/index-set.php?id=19
    

• Posters

  • "TAKE UP THE SWORD OF JUSTICE," British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection (Georgetown University) (Online Exhibition)

    https://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/take-sword-justice-british-posters-world-war-one-r
    

  • Allied Posters of World War I, Temple University Libraries (Institutional Website)

    This collection, by Temple University Libraries, contains over 1,500 posters from the allied powers in World War I.

    http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16002coll9
    

  • American War Posters from the First World War, Bancroft Library (Institutional Website)

    168 digitized American posters from World War I, hosted by Bancroft Library.

    http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab;brand=calisphere;style=cui;institution=UC+Berkele
    

  • Canadian War Posters (McGill University Library) (Database)

    http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/
    

  • Canadian Wartime Propaganda, Canadian War Museum (Institutional Website)

    This database of war posters is from the collection of the Canadian War Museum. The database is available in French and English.

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/propaganda/collection_e.shtml
    

  • French World War I Posters (University of Illinois) (Online Exhibition)

    https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/8116a380-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-c
    

  • Plakat-Datenbank der Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte: Ausschnitt Erster Weltkrieg, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (Institutional Website)

    This collection of German posters from the First World War, hosted by the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, includes proclamations from German military authorities in the occupied territories. The database and posters are in German.

    http://avanti.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/wk1plakat/
    

  • The Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War, Royal Alberta Museum (Institutional Website)

    The virtual exhibit contains 46 posters representing some of the work of Allied poster artists and their Canadian counterparts during WWI.

    http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/exhibits/online/posterWar/english/home.htm
    

  • The War Posters Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries and Hennepin County Library (Institutional Website)

    This collection of war posters includes commercial, government and charitable posters.

    http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/warsearch
    

  • War Poster Collection, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division (Institutional Website)

    This database of World War I and II posters, hosted by the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division, includes examples of Dutch, German, American and British posters.

    http://content.lib.washington.edu/postersweb/
    

  • World War Poster Collection, UNT Digital Library (Institutional Website)

    This collection of war posters includes French, American and German posters which exhort the civilian populations to buy war bonds, support the war and help to provide food aid.

    http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/wwpc/browse/?fq=untl_decade%3A1910-1919
    

• Postcards

  • Christmas cards, 1915-1919, National Library of Wales (Institutional Website)

    This collection of 101 Christmas cards received by received by Sergeant Major Fear is held by the National Library of Wales.

    http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/4039940
    

  • First World War postcards from the George Eastman House (Institutional Website)

    A collection of Entente postcards, mostly French, uploaded to Flickr by the George Eastman House.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157608880152065
    

  • Historische Bildpostkarten, Universität Osnabrück, Sammlung Prof. Dr. S. Giesbrecht: Der Erste Weltkrieg auf der Bildpostkarte (Institutional Website)

    The database contains more than thousand picture postcards produced during WWI, sorted by categories such as “war propaganda” and “music and songs”.

    http://www.bildpostkarten.uni-osnabrueck.de/index.php?cat=142
    

  • Les Cartes Postales dans les Fonds de la BDIC, Mission Centenaire 14-18 (Institutional Website)

    This website displays postcards from the Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) collections. They are grouped by theme, with categories such as “Kitsch” and “Barbarians, ogres and assassins … anti-German propaganda in post cards”. The website is in French.

    http://centenaire.org/fr/les-cartes-postales-dans-les-fonds-de-la-bdic
    

  • War Posters and Postcards, University of Minnesota Libraries and Hennepin County Library (Institutional Website)

    This collection of posters and postcards contains materials from the University of Minnesota Libraries as well as the Hennepin County Library.

    http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/22163
    

  • World War I Postcards from the Bowman Gray Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Institutional Website)

    This collection of First World War postcards includes French, American and Russian postcards. The database is in English, and English translations are provided for postcards in other languages.

    http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/graypc
    

New Zealand

• Archives New Zealand, World War One records (Institutional Website)

  This website makes the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Personnel Files for New Zealanders who served in the First World War accessible online.

  http://archives.govt.nz/world-war-one
  

• Cenotaph database (Auckland War Memorial Museum) (Institutional Website)

  This database has information on the servicemen who fought in World War I for New Zealand.

  http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/locations.aspx
  

• Find WW1 Content, First World War Centenary Programme Office (Institutional Website)

  WW100 provides a New Zealand perspective on World War I. The feature “Find WW1 Content” searches audio, video and images related to New Zealand’s role in the war.

  http://ww100.govt.nz/find-WW1-content
  

• New Zealand and the First World War (Ministry for Culture and Heritage) (Institutional Website)

  This website highlights New Zealand’s role in World War I and the many ways in which the New Zealand population experienced the war. Articles on the website discuss different aspects and events of the war.

  http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/first-world-war
  

Ottoman Empire / Middle East

• Encyclopaedia Iranica (Database)

  http://www.iranicaonline.org/
  

• Gallipoli: The Drama of the Dardanelles, Imperial War Museum (Institutional Website)

  A collection of video and audio material and photographs, complemented by illustrated documents on key aspects of the campaign

  http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/gallipoli
  

• Ottoman History Podcast (Institutional Website)

  This series of podcasts on Middle Eastern history covers many World War I themes.

  http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/
  

• Phototheca Afghanica, Afghanistan Institute in Switzerland (Institutional Website)

  The Afghanistan Institute in Switzerland, in close co-operation with Afghan and international experts, has uploaded some 5000 old photographs, including pictures, as well as other documents, of the German diplomatic mission to Kabul during the First World War.

  http://www.phototheca-afghanica.ch
  

• Turkey in the First World War (Institutional Website)

  A website containing articles, a timeline, a bibliogrpahy and a list of external links on Turkey during the First World War.

  http://www.turkeyswar.com/index.html
  

• Virtual Exhibition on the Gallipoli Campaign, Auckland City Libraries (Institutional Website)

  A virtual exhibition on the Gallipolli campaign comprising of contemporary newspaper accounts, photographs and other images

  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/gallipoli/index.html
  

Portugal

• Arquivo Histórico Militar Digital Collection (Institutional Website)

  The Arquivo Histórico Militar’s digital collection of documents and images.

  http://arqhist.exercito.pt/
  

• portugal1914 (Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (Image)

  http://www.portugal1914.org/
  

Post-war

• Fronterlebnis und Nachkriegsordnung (Institutional Website)

  This collection of articles focusses on the effects and perception of the First World War. The articles are in German.

  http://www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/md=EWK-Inhalt
  

• Kommunismusgeschichte, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (Institutional Website)

  A database of resources concering the history of communism and accompanied by images, films, podcast, external links and maps.

  https://kommunismusgeschichte.de/
  

• The Memorial Park for the Battle of Jutland (Institutional Website)

  The website accompanying the physical Memorial Park for the Battle of Jutland.

  http://www.jutlandbattlememorial.com/english.html
  

Power

• 1914-1918: la Grande Guerre vue du Sénat, procès-verbaux et rapports des commissions (Sénat) (Database)

  http://www.senat.fr/histoire/1914_1918/index.html
  

• Assemblée Nationale (ed.) (in French): “L'invasion de la Belgique et de la France”, 4 August 1914, scroll to 31 Juillet 1914 (31 July 1914) (Internet Archive) (Article)

  http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/decouvrir-l-assemblee/histoire/1914-1918
  

• Portraits of historical figures, Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin (Institutional Website)

  A selection of portraits of historical figures from the Perry-Castañeda Library, UT Austin.

  http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits
  

Russian Empire

• "The Russian Revolution of 1917 in literary sources" is a continuation of the project. (Institutional Website)

  http://ruslitrev1917.ru
  

• 100(0) Schlüsseldokumente zur Russischen und Sowjetischen Geschichte (1917-1991) (Institutional Website)

  100(0) Key Documents on Russian and Soviet History compiles selected Audio-Visual sources. Introductory comments explain the relevance of the source, the current state of scientific research and advice on further reading. The documents can be accessed as full texts and as photocopies of original facsimiles.

  http://www.1000dokumente.de/index.html?c=1000_dokumente_ru&l=de
  

• 1917. Free History (Institutional Website)

  The work of a team of journalists, experts, designers, animators and illustrators, “1917. Free History” is a serial, but in the form of a social network. It is a way of bringing the past to life and bringing it closer to the present day. It is a way of understanding what the year 1917 was like for those who lived in Russia and in other countries.The project consists entirely of primary sources.

  https://project1917.com/
  

• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Institutional Website)

  A collection of digitised books and other sources in the electronic Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The collection is devoted to "the main events of 1917" (English interface and description are available).

  https://www.prlib.ru/en/collections/4672427
  

• Documents of the Soviet Age, The Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Institutional Website)

  "Documents of the Soviet Age" includes a collection of digitised "Revolution 1917" documents retrieved from the State Archive of the Russian Federation.

  http://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/#!tematicsection&sectionId=420645
  

• History of Russia in photos (Institutional Website)

  More than 100,000 photos from museums and private collections spanning the entire history of photography. The site is result of collaboration of state, non-profit and commercial institutions. It also contains many photographs from WW1 (Eastern front and Russian home front).

  https://russiainphoto.ru/
  

• Prozhito (Institutional Website)

  A database of 140,000 digitised Russian diaries from 1700-2000, including many written during the First World War.

  http://prozhito.org/
  

• Russian-German project for the digitization of German documents from the archives of the Russian Federation (Institutional Website)

  Database that includes a "Collection of documents of the special services of Germany in 1912-1945 from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History" as well as a collection of "German documents of the First World War from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation".

  http://www.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-rossiysko-germanskiy-proekt-po-otsifrovke-trofeynyh
  

• Russia’s Great War & Revolution Project (Institutional Website)

  Russia’s Great War & Revolution Project is an international collective of leading historians and research institutions dedicated to reevaluating the role of the First World War in Russian history. This website offers information about the project as well as a variety of articles on various aspects of Russia in the First World War.

  http://russiasgreatwar.org/index.php
  

• The economy of Revolution 1917, Russian State Archive of Economics (Institutional Website)

  A collection of hitherto unpublished digitised documents concerning the economy of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

  http://rgae.ru/er.shtml
  

• The October Revolution and origin of Soviet power, the Russian State Archive of Sound Recordings (Institutional Website)

  The archive contains 54 fragments of recordings of revolutionaries who took part in October events in Petrograd and other Russian cities. They were recorded between the 1920s and 1970s.

  http://революция.ргафд.рф
  

• World War I photographs from the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University (Institutional Website)

  This album contains a collection of photographs held by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Included are photographs taken by German soldiers in the conquered territories of the Russian Empire.

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/sets/72157647955718225/
  

• World War One and Russian Literature. Politics and Poets: Historical and Cultural Context (in Russian) (Institute for World Literature of the Academy of Sciences) (Database)

  http://ruslitwwi.ru/
  

• Георгиевские кавалеры, Великой войны 1914-1918, Rosarchiv (Institutional Website)

  The internet project "St. George's Cavaliers of the Great War" is a database of recipients of the Order of St. George, St. George's Crosses, and St. George's weapon during the First World War.

  http://cavalier.rusarchives.ru/
  

• Коллекции: Материалы к истории Первой мировой войны, State Historical Public Library of Russia (Institutional Website)

  The collection "Materials on the history of the First World War" contains books and periodicals (more than 450 titles, mostly in Russian) which were digitised by the State Historical Public Library of Russia.

  http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/indexes/values/39733
  

• Офицеры Первой мировой - генералы Великой Отечественной, Rosarchiv (Institutional Website)

  The project "The officers of the First World War - Generals of the Great Patriotic War" presents documents on military careers of Russian officers of the First World War who became generals and admirals in the Soviet army during the Second World War.

  http://wwar1.rusarchives.ru/
  

• Памяти героев Великой Войны 1914-1918, Russian Ministry of Defence (Institutional Website)

  The project "In memory of the heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918" is provided by the Russian Ministry of Defence and supported by the Russian Historical Society and theFederal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarchiv). The database contains more than 2.5 millions digitised card files of the Bureau for the calculation of losses at the fronts of the First World War.

  http://gwar.mil.ru/
  

• Российская ассоциация историков первой мировой войны 1914-1918 (Institutional Website)

  The website of the Russian Association of Historians of the First World War.

  http://rusasww1.ru/index.php
  

• События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов, Rosarchiv (Institutional Website)

  Events in the Semirechie in 1916 (revolt of Kazakh tribes during the mobilisation of local people for military works) according to the documents of Russian archives.

  http://semirechye.rusarchives.ru/
  

South East Europe

• 100letprve (100letprve) (Institutional Website)

  http://www.100letprve.si/en/
  

• Information Server, Ungarisches Institut München (Institutional Website)

  This German-language collection of transcripts on East Central and South East Europe includes important documents about the First World War, such as peace treaties and political memos. It was created with the support of the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst.

  http://www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de/
  

• Veliki Rat (Veliki Rat) (Database)

  http://velikirat.nb.rs/en/
  

• WWI in collections of the Historical archives of Belgrade (Institutional Website)

  An analytic inventory, a thematic guide, proceedings of documents, nominal and thematic registers and other sections offer access to the First World War archival material of the Belgrade historical archives. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

  http://www.ww1.arhiv-beograda.org/
  

USA

• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, Library of Congress (Institutional Website)

  The Nation's Forum Collection from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division consists of 59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding WWI and the subsequent presidential election of 1920.

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
  

• Campaign Atlas to the Great War, West Point Academy, Department of History (Institutional Website)

  A database of campaign and battle maps from WWI

  http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx
  

• Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution (Institutional Website)

  A collection of more than 7.7 million catalog records with 568,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian’s museums, archives and libraries.

  http://collections.si.edu/search/
  

• Digital Public Library of America (Institutional Website)

  The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together more than 8 million digitized items from America’s libraries, archives, and museums including around 5,000 items related to the First World War.

  http://dp.la/
  

• Eyewitness, American Originals from the National Archives, US National Archives and Records Administration (Institutional Website)

  A small collection of eyewitness accounts from key events in the past 150 years, including two on WWI.

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/
  

• For an overview of the LoC collections on WWI, see “A Guide to World War I Materials” at (Institutional Website)

  http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html
  

• In particular:World War I Posters, Library of Congress (Institutional Website)

  A collection of approximately 1,900 posters created between 1914 and 1920. The majority of the posters were printed in the United States. Posters from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia are also included.

  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/
  

• Military Resources: World War I (The National Archives) (Article)

  http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/ww1.html
  

• National Archives Homepage, US National Archives and Records Administration (Institutional Website)

  A website containing access to some of the US’s important national documents and material.

  http://www.archives.gov/
  

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery, New York Public Library (Institutional Website)

  A collection of more than 700,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections.

  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
  

• On the Homefront: America During World War I and World War II, Library of Congress (Institutional Website)

  A selection of materials such as photographs and posters that illustrate homefront contributions during World War I and II.

  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/homefron
  

• Panoramic Photographs from the National Archives, US National Archives and Records Administration (Institutional Website)

  A small sample of the wide variety of panoramic images in NARA’s still-picture holdings. The exhibit covers the period from 1864 to 1937, but the vast majority of images date from the WWI era.

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html
  

• Prints & Photographs Online Catalogue Photo Collection, Library of Congress (Institutional Website)

  The Library of Congress’ online collection of photos.

  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
  

• The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (US National Archives and Records Administration) (Article)

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/
  

• The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), University of Minnesota (Institutional Website)

  The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.

  https://www.nhgis.org/
  

• The National WWI Museum and Memorial,Kansas City (Institutional Website)

  The Online Exhibitions of the National WWI Museum and Memorial provide articles, images and other primary sources on a diverse range of topics on United States First World War history.

  https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/online-exhibitions
  

• The Stars and Stripes. The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (Library of Congress) (Database)

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
  

• The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' digital World War I collection (Institutional Website)

  The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' World War I Collection Online offers a rich array of primary-source material related to the First World War. The digital collection consists of over 1,100 titles (55,000+ pages), mainly published during the war years, and represents a wide range of formats, genres, geopolitical units, and subject matter.

  http://cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/g4l4ln
  

• Veterans’ History Project (Library of Congress) (Database)

  http://www.loc.gov/vets/
  

Violence

• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Stanford University (Institutional Website)

  A virtual exhibition dealing with different aspects of the influenza pandemic, from the scientific and medical approach to both the causes and treatment to the actual spreading of the pandemic in two waves, and the response of public health institutions and governments.

  http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/index.html
  

• Military History

  • Portal Militärgeschichte, Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. (Institutional Website)

    This website aims to provide information about all aspects of military history and to help connect those interested in military history. Portal Militärgeschichte has published a number of academic articles on military history, has a list of events, and offers a forum for researchers interested in military history. The website is in German.

    http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/
    

  • Three Pilots – One War (Institutional Website)

    This project, a cooperation among Royal Air Force Museum, the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, and the Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr, publishes English, French, and German pilots’ wartime letters 100 years after they were written and organizes related exhibitions. The website is available in English, French, and German.

    http://3p1w.kgbinternet.com/
    

• Fronts and Campaigns

  • Cartographie 1914-1918, Le front ouest de la première guerre mondiale (Institutional Website)

    Cartographie 1914-1918 maps troop movements along the Western Front and allows every date to be selected on a calendar.

    http://www.carto1418.fr/
    

  • Jutland 1916 (Institutional Website)

    This centenary exhibition at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (open until Spring 2019) highlights the role of the British Royal Navy in the Battle of Jutland.

    http://jutland.org.uk/
    

  • The Battle of Jutland Centenary Initiative (Institutional Website)

    Website providing a digital curation of the Battle of Jutland, including podcasts, animations, stories, maps and other sources.

    http://www.jutland1916.com/
    

  • Western Front Association (Institutional Website)

    The Western Front Association (WFA) was formed with the aim of furthering interest in The Great War of 1914-1918 and perpetuating the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders. The website contains numerous articles and visual-media sources on an array of topics.

    http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/
    

• Prisoners of War

  • Blue Cross World War One Collection (Institutional Website)

    The Blue Cross cared for sick and injured horses and sent veterinary supplies to the British and Allied armies. Their war archive contains audio slideshows and a full digital copy of the organization’s monograph The Blue Cross at War 1914-’18 and 1939-’45.

    https://www.bluecross.org.uk/blue-cross-world-war-one-collection
    

  • Prisoners of War (International Committee of the Red Cross Archives) (Institutional Website)

    Digitized documents from various prisons of war, including postcards, reports on camp life, soldiers’ accounts, death notices, and other records. During the First World War, 10 million servicemen and civilians were captured and sent to detention camps.The belligerent countries involved provided lists of prisoners to the ICRC, which created an index card for each prisoner and detainee. The website allows users to search through all 5 million of them.

    https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/