What do archivists keep (or not)? On the big screen, archives are generally mysterious places. Archives both hide and reveal secrets that move the plot along. But one of the biggest mysteries in fictional archives is how all that stuff got into the archives in the first place. Somehow old documents have magically and conveniently gravitated to the archives. Mythical archives are just there and they have everything.
World War I (1914–1919): Overview World War I took place between 1914 and 1918. Although the conflict began in Europe, it ultimately involved countries as far away as the United States and Japan. At the time, the English-speaking world knew it as the “Great War”—the term “World War I” was applied decades later. Historians still actively disagree over the fundamental causes of the war.
Behind Their Lines: Returning, we hear the larks “Dawn has never recovered from what the Great War did to it,” writes Paul Fussell in The Great War and Modern Memory. Dawn, an archetype of hope and renewal, was for the men in the trenches one of the most anxious and exhausting times of day. Sunrise was the time when attacks were launched and men were ordered to “go over the top.” Additionally, the dangerous work in No Man’s Land of cutting barbed wire, gathering information on enemy positions, and rescuing the wounded was done during the night and finished at daybreak. Isaac Rosenberg’s poem “Returning, we hear the larks,” captures dawn and its moods in an almost painterly fashion, not surprising perhaps, as Rosenberg was both an artist and a poet (he studied at the Slade School of Art).
Sassoon Journals Diaries and journals can be among the most intimate and revealing of texts, offering accounts of their authors' lives with minimal literary artifice or mediation. Considered as physical objects, too, they accrue the fascination of having travelled with the writer through the events described in their pages. The notebooks kept by the soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) during his service in the British Army in the First World War are among the most remarkable documents of their kind, and provide an extraordinary insight into his participation in one of the defining conflicts of European history. Cambridge University Library holds the world's richest assemblage of Sassoon's manuscripts and archival papers. Accumulated from various sources over the course of several decades, the collection was magnificently augmented in 2009 with the acquisition of the papers formerly retained in the possession of Sassoon's only child, George.
Letters to a Young Librarian: 10 Things I Didn't Learn in Archives School, by Sara Allain 1. Papercuts are a job hazard. And they really, really hurt. And at least once I got blood on the archival material. Untold Stories of the First World War Photos, letters and other memorabilia It was the war that tore Europe apart – a struggle between the central powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, against the allied powers of Britain, France, Belgium, Russia, Italy and the USA. No European nation was left untouched – even neutral states felt the impact of the war. But it was the ordinary men and women who were affected the most. This exhibition gives those personal accounts from across Europe for the first time, based on stories and items contributed by the public. Renowned historian and WW1 author Peter Englund said: “This important and imaginative project tells the other side of the story, from the point of view of a young soldier who signed up seeking adventure, to the family devastated by news that he was one of millions who would never return.
Isaac Rosenberg Today, a century back, the German army launched the first major secondary attack, as it were, of the Spring Offensive. The advance over the first week has been very successful by the standards of previous offensives–but, as we have seen, unevenly so. The Germans have suffered heavy losses and have penetrated deeper into the less-strongly-held–and, therefore, less strategically important–sections of the British line. So they, too, have difficult salients they would like to iron out. Today’s “Operation Mars” was a renewed effort to push back the British on their left, near Arras, and it failed.
Publishing in the Archives Profession United States International Foreign Language Arbido (Switzerland)Archeion (Poland)Archivalische Zeitschrift (Germany)La Gazette des Archives (French) Past issues open access onlineLevéltári Közlemények 1923-2008 (Hungary) Past Journals The Book and Paper Group Annual (The American Institute of Conservation)Journal of Documentary ReproductionLibrary and Archival Security (incorporated into Journal of Archival Organization)Ms.
First World War internment camps a dark chapter in Canadian history Though the main battles of the First World War were fought across the ocean, back in Canada, there were prisoners and casualties of another kind. In 1914, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, Germany and the other Central Powers were rounded up and locked away in internment camps. More than 8,000 people who considered themselves Canadian were imprisoned for being “enemy aliens.”
First World War (WWI) - The Canadian Encyclopedia The First World War of 1914–1918 was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian history, taking the lives of more than 60,000 Canadians. Ypres, Second Battle of 22 April to 25 May, 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres the Germans attacked, using chlorine gas for the first time. The French Algerian Division fled but the Canadians repulsed numerous assaults. Database of 620,000 First World War personnel files completed to mark anniversary of Canada’s 100 Days August 8, 1918, is commonly known as the beginning of “Canada’s 100 Days” -- when the Canadian Corps spearheaded attacks that became known as the Battle of Amiens, a major turning point that led to victory in the Great War and the Armistice of November 11. To mark the centennial of the end of the First World War and the heroic and tragic events that led up to it, we are pleased to announce the completion of the digitization of all Canadian military personnel records from the Great War. Explore the First World War Database! It took five years of work, encompassing over 30 million digitized images and 540 terabytes of data, but we now have a complete list of more than 620,000 files accessible online!
BBC Schools - Life in the trenches 31 October 2014Last updated at 15:07 Two British soldiers standing in a flooded communication trench during World War One On the Western Front, the war was fought in trenches.