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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Pictures Valley of Ashes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F Scott Fitzgerald Signature https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Tales of the Jazz Age https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Short Stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/short/
eBooks The Pat Hobby Stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/pat/
eBooks Taps at Reveille https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/taps/
eBooks All the Sad Young Men https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/all/
eBooks Tales of the Jazz Age https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/jazz/
eBooks Flappers and Philosophers https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/flappers/
eBooks Tender is the Night https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/tender/
eBooks The Beautiful and Damned https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/beaut/
Essays The Curious Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald Kate O'Connor
Other Under a green sea – experiences of gas warfare (3D simulation) https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/under-a-green-sea-experiences-…
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…
Video The Origins of World War I (lecture) John Merriman https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276/lecture-13
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…
Essays Edward Thomas - biography Katharine Lindsay https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/thomas
eBooks Norse tales https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Two poems https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Chosen essays https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The country https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Essays Isaac Rosenberg - biography Alisa Miller, Vivien Noakes https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/rosenberg
Essays Ivor Guerney - biography Stuart Lee https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/gurney
eBooks Twenty poems https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The old vicarage Grantchester https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks "1914" : five sonnets https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The complete poems of Rupert Brooke https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The great war, 1914-1918; a brief sketch https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The British campaigns in Europe, 1914-1918 https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The saga of the Seventh division https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks 1914 & other poems https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Imperial Federation, map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Colonial Writers - Introduction Dominic Davies
Essays Contemporary Writers - Introduction Dominic Davies
Essays Lost Generation Kate O'Connor
eBooks The White Devil, or the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/webster/john/devil/
Essays English Renaissance Timeline: Some Historical and Cultural Dates Kate O'Connor
eBooks Literary detection : a symposium on "Macbeth" https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures The Spanish Tragedy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Thomas Kyd: An English Tragedy Kate O'Connor
Essays Caribbean Writers Dominic Davies
Other Commerce and Culture, Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Theater Paul A. Cantor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrkJ5xVtaA
Pictures The Rhodes Colossus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Imperial Federation, map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page