Collection items

A crowded square. A poster announces the death of...

Photograph

A small crowd gathers in an Italian city around a poster announcing the death of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Jose...

A History of Fidelity, a summary of Alsace-Lorrain...

Drawing

This pamphlet contains a summary of Alsace-Lorraine history since the 1870 war, from a Francophile point of view. It def...

A trench on the front line

Photograph

This photograph shows a pneumatic trench mortar, an indirect fire weapon, being operated by a French soldier in a frontl...

A World Language: why not Esperanto?, by Margaret ...

Booklet, Manual

Margaret L. Blaise (née Jones, 1878-1935) was one of the most accomplished and fervent pioneers of the Esperanto ...

Account of a journey through Germany after the Arm...

Book, Diary

This is an excerpt from an account of a journey through Germany made by Hunter-Weston in December 1918, little over a mo...

'Are we afraid? No!' A propaganda postcard depicti...

Postcard, Illustration

What is this?  The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera d...

Austrohungarian ultimatum to Serbia and Serbian re...

Letter

In this correspondence are the official demands of Austria-Hungary towards Serbia, Serbia’s official response, and the r...

Bartholomew's General War Map of Europe

Map

In addition to materials produced for official use, map publishers kept the general public readily supplied with a range...

Battle of the Somme, a map of the situation in Jul...

Map

A 16-mile wide area of front around the River Somme, at the extreme right of the British held front line, was selected f...

Battle of the Somme, a map showing the situation i...

Map

Compared with the advances made by the Allied attack upon the German front line in July 1916, this update on the progres...

Before Antwerp 1914: the Battle of Dendermonde

Postcard, Illustration

This postcard shows soldiers fighting in Dendermonde. The Belgian cities of Dendermonde and Leuven (Louvain) were some o...

Belgrade and Serbia obituaries

Memorandum

During the Austrian-Hungarian attack on Serbian territory in 1914 and 1915, obituaries for Belgrade and the Kingdom of S...

Book 'War, the world's only hygiene'

Book

This book by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was first published in Paris in 1909, and reprinted in Italian in 191...

Britannia Rules The Waves

Postcard, Illustration

What is this? The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera ...

Danish syndicalist Thørger Thørgersen speaking at...

Photograph

This photograph shows Danish communist leader Thøger Thøgersen giving a speech on 10 November 1918. Th&osl...