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The First World War: trauma and memory
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Annika Mombauer and Vincent Trott. It was first published in October 2018.

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Images

Figure 1 National Library of Scotland (Public domain https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/4700232268.

Figure 2 Photograph: Horace Nicolls (Public domain)

Figure 3 Poem by Wilfrid Owen and Photograph in Public domain https://archive.org/details/poemsowenwil00owenrich

Figure 4 This item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © University of Oxford

Figure 5 Central Press/Stringer/Getty Images

Figure 6 Photograph: © Nick https://www.flickr.com/photos/34517490@N00/3085743748/ Sculpture by Kathe Kollwitz

Figure 7 Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War), 1924 - sketch by Käthe Kollwitz

Figure 8 © Imperial War Museum.IWM ART 518, http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright/licence

Figure 9 THE MATCH SELLER, 1920 by Otto Dix © DACS 2014

Figure 10 THE WOUNDED MAN (Autumn 1916, Bapaume),1924 by Otto Dix © DACS 2014

Figure 11 MEALTIME IN THE TRENCH (Loretto Heights), Otto Dix, 1924 © DACS 2014

Figure 12 FLANDERS, Otto Dix, 1936 © DACS 2014

Figure 13 Photograph by George Charles Beresford (Pubic domain)

Figure 14 Left: Siegfried Sassoon reading, Cambridge University Library/The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed September 27, 2016, http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9672. Right: This item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © University of Oxford

Figure 15 © Brideshead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Craiglockhart_Hydropathic_main_view.JPG.

Figure 16 National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures (RDSS) https://research.archives.gov/id/513200 Public Domain

Figure 17 © Rolls Press/Popperfoton/Getty Images

Figure 18 © unknown

Figure 19 © photograph: Aurelien Guichard in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Audio-visual

3.1.3: passage from Testament of Youth (Brittain) BBC for The Open University © BBC

3.2.2: Fiona Reid: Shell shock © The Open University

Text

Extract from: Brittain, V. (2004 [1933]) Testament of Youth, London, Penguin, pp 437–9.

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