May172013
demons: Australian troops amidst the devastation of war in Ypres after the Battle of Passchendaele (sometimes referred to as the Third Battle of Ypres), 1917

demons:

Australian troops amidst the devastation of war in Ypres after the Battle of Passchendaele (sometimes referred to as the Third Battle of Ypres), 1917

(via interwar)

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May152013

Velociraptor With A Quill Pen: Possible Ways to Elicit an Acidic Response from Robert Graves:

velociraptorwithaquillpen:

  • send him a letter criticizing his work
  • send him a letter correcting a factual error in his work
  • send him a letter disagreeing with him (about basically anything)
  • send him a letter implying anything less than complimentary about him or his writing
  • send him a book to be autographed (even…

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May142013

imightbejames:

Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for Doomed Youth.

This still gives me shivers every time I listen to it.

*feels*

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May122013
wahnwitzig: Almost 3am but can’t sleep even though tired so made WWI cliche poster have fun nice I love this. I scrolled through and actually thought it was a real book. Tempted to go down to my WWI bookshelf and inventory what percentage of covers have none of a) letters b) a stately home c) poppies or d) silhouettes of Tommies. From memory, my Penguin edition of Goodbye to all That, and the doorstop biography of Siegfried Sassoon may be the only books that pass.

wahnwitzig:

Almost 3am but can’t sleep even though tired so made WWI cliche poster have fun nice

I love this. I scrolled through and actually thought it was a real book. Tempted to go down to my WWI bookshelf and inventory what percentage of covers have none of a) letters b) a stately home c) poppies or d) silhouettes of Tommies. From memory, my Penguin edition of Goodbye to all That, and the doorstop biography of Siegfried Sassoon may be the only books that pass.

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3AM

What Tolkien Taught Me about the Battle of the Somme

(Source: sarum114, via men-marched-asleep)

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May42013
art-destruction: 8 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Pte Sharples was killed, aged 20, on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery.

art-destruction:

8 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Pte Sharples was killed, aged 20, on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery.

(via men-marched-asleep)

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May32013

Opiate of them Asses: how to assemble your very own WWI centennial bandwagon novel

bassington:

Choose a minimum of four:

  • Grand Edwardian country house
  • Upstairs/downstairs ensemble cast
  • Forbidden cross-class romance (highly recommended)
  • Multiple adult daughters of peer
  • ‘Home by Christmas’ said poignantly by the guy who dies
  • PTSD, except the only symptoms are night…

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11PM

lord-kitschener:

But no, seriously, if you’re ever designing a cover for a book or choosing a photo for a textbook chapter about the first world war, all you need is a WWI Horizon Silhouette photo, like this one here

image

just take that motherfucker, make sure that it has silhouettes with visible helmets on the horizon, and drag/drop/clip as needed. 

BOOM. YOU’RE DONE. HISTORY HAS BEEN LESSONED.

Now go hit the bar, you’ve had a long, grueling day of Doing the History.

One of my favourite WWI visual clichés! :)

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7AM

(Source: jimik1990, via lord-kitschener)

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May22013

velociraptorwithaquillpen:

asya-yay:

Written and composed by Lane Hinchcliffe, The Front is a musical primarily about the stories of four Australian soldiers in the First World War taking place on the Western Front and chronicling the events of July 1916.

(For an interview with Lane Hinchcliffe and more about the musical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIZ_jWfumY )

WWI MUSICAL WHAT. I have some definite mixed feelings about this, honestly, and I’m dubious about the idea of doing a traditional musical with this kind of subject matter. The lyrics in particular felt too romantic/heroic for me at a number of points, and I have major problems with romanticizing WWI. :-/

But ahhhhhh the song made me emotional anyways because…Battle of the Somme. Whyyyyyyyyy.

It is possible to do a dramatic, narrative song about WWI without it being schmaltzy, but… this is not that song.

(Exhibit A: Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and “The Green Fields of France”)

And I should LOVE a musical about ANZACs in WWI.

(28 plays)

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