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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Other Beyond the slaughter and loss of the First World War (conversation) https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/world-history/beyond-th…
Other Europeana 1914-1918 (memorabilia collection) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
Other Edward Thomas's Birthday Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/edward-thomass-birthday.html
Other Edward Thomas: 'In Memoriam [Easter 1915]' Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/edward-thomas-in-memoriam-easter-1915…
Other Commerce and Culture, Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Theater Paul A. Cantor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrkJ5xVtaA
Other Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (course) David O'Connor https://www.nd.edu:443/
Other ULYSSES: Gerty, Romance, and You Tara Prescott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghOdFx8cjs
Other The future of books (article) John Thompson https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-future-of-books
Other Introduction to Theory of Literature (course) Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300
Other Reading and World War I https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Ulysses: Stephen's Shining Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30YC5TYXXM
Other Special Topics in Literature: Milton's "Paradise Lost" (course) Mary Fuller https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Other Reading Ulysses - visualising the text Patrick Lockley https://www.pgogy.com/james/
Other Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen - Muvizu 3D Animation war poem https://youtu.be/3pVpTsXu4cc
Other Science of Middleton (images) Patrick Lockley https://www.flickr.com/photos/76886454@N02/collections/72157629487236176/
Other The Beggar's Opera (scores) https://archive.org/details/beggarsoperaasit00austi/page/n6
Other Science of Shakespeare (visualisations) Patrick Lockley https://www.flickr.com/photos/76886454@N02/collections/72157629383261896/
Other Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass [1860] https://whitmanarchive.org/published/1860-Blue_book/images/index.html
Other The uncensored Jane Austen Janet Todd https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-uncensored-jane-austen
Other Language menu Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/7038
Other Writing about poetry Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/6740
Other Wilfred Owen: The Man and His Poems Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/7082
Other Charles Dickens audiobooks (Librivox) https://librivox.org/search?title=&author=Charles+Dickens&reader=&keywords=&gen…
Other Open Source Shakespeare https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/
Other Course: Milton (Open Yale) John Rogers https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220
Other Course: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations (course) Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Course: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Old English Coursepack Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/items/show/150
Other Woruldhord Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord////