WWI Websites
This list of links contains a multitude of online resources for pictures, audio files, maps, and other multimedia elements related to WWI.
Collections Search, Imperial War Museums, London
A catalogue of more than 600,000 items, including aircraft, weapons, interviews, music, posters, letters and more from the Imperial War Museums' collections. 90,000 objects also have digitized images, sound or video.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search
Blog about Digital Projects on the First World War, Otto Vervaart
Historian Otto Vervaart’s blog presents various digital projects and resources concerning the First World War.
http://digital1418.wordpress.com/
History Guide
A subject catalogue of recommended websites for historians. The catalogue includes metadata from approximately 11,000 websites, including the Clio-Online web directory.
BBC History: World War One, British Broadcasting Corporation
An interactive overview of the people, places, and events of WWI.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
World War I Centenary, University of Oxford JISC
This website has a collection of educational materials (articles, images, interactive maps, audio and video lectures, and e-books) on World War I. It uses cross-disciplinary themes to examine the cultural, social, geographical and historical context of the war.
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
La Grande Guerre
Blog about World War I-related research and events at the German Historical Institute Paris.
http://grandeguerre.hypotheses.org/
International Society for First World War Studies
The website of the International Society for First World War Studies, the largest network of WWI scholars worldwide, provides WWI news, information about upcoming events, job and funding announcements, and a fast-growing collaborative bibliography of First World War Studies.
http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org
Carnet du Centre International de Recherche, Histoire(s) de 14-18
This French-language blog details the activities of the International Center of Research on the Great War and offers updates on the latest WWI research.
Historial de La Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War)
The website of the Museum of the Great War located in Péronne, France.
Europeana 1914-1918 (Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten), European Union
A collection of (photographed) daily objects, as well as digitalized posters, maps, letters, photographs and other items, with accompanying descriptions and background information.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, Sciences Po
The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century.
The Great War, Youtube Channel
"The Great War" is a documentary series on YouTube. Each week its host Indy Neidell follows the events of the First World as they happened 100 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
Society for the History of War
The object of the Society is to promote the study and understanding of war in history and to stimulate a broad range of discussions about the place of war in society, its impacts on cultures and individuals and how it has been perceived, experienced and legitimated
Collaborative European Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI)
The European Commission-funded project implements a virtual research infrastructure aiming to provide access to historical resources across institutional and national boundaries. Archival resources pertaining to the First World War and the medieval period from more than a thousand institutions across Europe and the world have been combined in CENDARI and made available to scholars across the globe.
First World War Network. A network of early career and postgraduate researchers
The First World War Network actively seeks to connect early career researchers, postgraduates and any others interested in the study of the First World War. Through its free membership, it provides access to a mailing list, training and networking events and opportunities to participate in a range of academic and community partnerships.
Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime is a collection of English and American wartime resources on cooking, gardening and nutrition. It includes titles such as “The eat-less-meat book, war ration cookery”, “Victory breads” and “Preserve eggs for winter use”.
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HumanEcol/WWIHomeCook
Rationierungsmarken-Datenbank der Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte: Ausschnitt Erster Weltkrieg, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
This collection includes more than 5,000 ration coupons and cards from the First World War, hosted by the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. The database and the ration coupons are in German.
http://avanti.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/wk1lmkart/
The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, US National Archives and Records Administration
An online archive of documents and photos showing the course and consequences of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed 50 million people worldwide.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Stanford University
A virtual exhibition dealing with different aspects of the influenza pandemic, from the scientific and medical approach to both the causes and treatment to the actual spreading of the pandemic in two waves, and the response of public health institutions and governments.
Languages and the First World War
Languages and the First World War is a cross-disciplinary research project exploring change within languages and how languages influenced each other during a period of crisis and conflict.
https://languagesandthefirstworldwar.wordpress.com/
English Words in War-Time, Tracking Language on the Move in WW1
In a series of blogs, the ‘English Words in War-Time’ project tracks a detailed and largely unexamined record of language by Andrew Clark on the Home Front, and the reporting of war in a critical period of social and historical change.
https://wordsinwartime.wordpress.com/
Audio
The Virtual Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada
The Virtual Gramophone hosts a sample of Canadian music from the First World War. It also provides biographical articles of musicians with digitized historical material which explain the musical developments of the time.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/028011-3010-e.html
Library of Congress, National Jukebox, Historical Recordings
The National Jukebox of the Library of Congress makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.
Cartoons
British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent
The British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library holds collections by over three hundred cartoonists. Many of these have been digitised and catalogued, and can be found among the 170,000 digitized items on the BCA website.
The Daily Telegraph war cartoons
A collection of First World War cartoons from the Daily Telegraph, uploaded to Flickr by the State Library of New South Wales.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/sets/72157660808732151
JM’s World War One Sketchbooks
A collection of illustrations from a set of two World War One sketchbooks uploaded by the University of Victoria’s Special Collections Library. The collection contains watercolour and pen and ink images produced by a British soldier stationed in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128520551@N04/sets/72157653843591602
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
A website dedicated to the Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers. It includes a gallery showing of many of his works.
Canadian Letters and Images Project, Vancouver Island University, Department of History
An online archive of the Canadian war experience (various wars, including WWI) as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. The collections include correspondence, diaries, photographs, postcards and other miscellaneous items. All correspondence has been transcribed, retaining the original spelling, punctuation and paragraph formatting. When available, the transcriptions are accompanied by scans of the original pages.
Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V.
A collection of German armed forces’ correspondence with friends and family from 1914-1918.
http://www.exponate-online.de/e_exponat.asp?a=1&e=27
Feldpost aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
With over 700 examples of personal letters, parcels, and post cards, this collection consists of first-hand German accounts of the First World War.
https://www.briefsammlung.de/feldpost-erster-weltkrieg/
Letters of 1916, Maynooth University
A crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916).
http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie
Tagebücher, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
The Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart hosts four diaries of participants in World War I, as well as some letters. The materials are in German.
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/?id=6857
La Grande Guerra 1914-1918, L'Espresso
A digital collection of Italian diaries during the First World War, which are searchable by theme, author or location.
https://espresso.repubblica.it/grandeguerra/index.php?ref=twhe
Voci della grande guerra
A digital archive of Italian soldiers’ writings from the First World War. The texts, chosen by historians and linguists, are intended to represent the various and diverse ways of describing and narrating the First World War.
http://www.vocidellagrandeguerra.it/
Prozhito
A database of 140,000 digitised Russian diaries from 1700-2000, including many written during the First World War.
Das Kriegstagebuch des Alfred Hermann Fried
A digital version of the diaries kept by Austrian journalist and pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921).
Film
WW1 – The Definitive Collection, British Pathé
The British Pathé was a film, newsreel and music company founded in Britain in 1910, and is now a newsreel archive containing 85,000 films. Its World War I archive is sorted into over 50 categories and contains more than 100 historical films.
http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/page/ww1-the-definitive-collection
Australians at War Film Archive, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs
The Film Archive “Australians at War” is an Australian Government initiative designed to film and record the stories of over two thousand war veterans who served from World War I to today in the Australian Defence Force.
http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/
1914-1918, ARD
This media library provides television programmes and articles about the First World War. The website is in German.
European Film Gateway
The EFG Portal provides access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.
http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/
Der moderne Krieg im Film / Modern War on Screen, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum Osnabrück
This database presents information on international war and anti-war films of all genres, from feature films to documentaries. It provides details (title, year of production, director, actors, etc.) as well as film abstracts and short biographies of those participating. Furthermore, the database offers information on the films’ whereabouts in national archives, their availability on various media platforms, and selected bibliographic references. A detailed keyword-index enables searching by war, topic, motif or certain film-specific expressions.
Erster Weltkrieg, Filmportal
A collection of German video footage from the First World War.
https://www.filmportal.de/videos?field_video_title_value=&field_video_thema_target_id%5B689%5D=689
Focus on film: The Great War, National Archives Learning Curve
A collection of short clips with background information from The National Archives’ Film Archives. The material is predominantly from 1915-16 and focuses on the Battle of the Somme.
Colonial Film. Moving Images of the British Empire, Arts and Humanities Research Council
The colonial film archives contain footage from the former British empire, including reports on the First World War.
http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/home
Estonian Film Archives
More than 600 archives have registered and digitized their material. The growing archive contains over 275,000 film, photo, and video sources.
http://www.eha.ee/fa/public//index.php?lang=en&lch=2&lch_gen=2&act=default&nocache=142199868
Literature & Poetry
The First World War Poetry Archive, University of Oxford
An online repository of more than 7,000 items of text, images, audio and video. The archive consists of collections of primary material from major poets of the period. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museums, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public (see “The Great War Archive” at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/), and a set of specially developed educational resources.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
Sassoon Journals, Cambridge Digital Library
This collection contains digitized 23 diaries written by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), one of the British War Poets.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon
World War I, David Rumsey Map Collection, Cartography Associates
A digitized sample (32,000 items) of the David Rumsey Map Collection (150,000 maps), allowing viewers to access and then compare, analyze and view items in new and experimental ways. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, but also has maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, and more. Items range from about 1700 to the 1950s.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/9p93g9
Map Archive, University of Halle-Wittenberg
A German-language collection of more than 100,000 maps, including many relating to WWI
http://bibliothek.uni-halle.de/sammlungen/kartensammlung/
The Geography of the Great War, Frank McMurray, Internet Archive
Digitized copy of the 1919 edition of Frank McMurray’s book The Geography of the Great War, containing various maps, photos, and charts listing population and military statistics.
https://archive.org/details/geographyofgreat00inmcmu
Campaign Atlas to the Great War, West Point Academy, Department of History
A database of campaign and battle maps from WWI.
http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx
World War I Sheet Music, Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship
In association with the John Hay Library, Brown University’s collection of World War I sheet music and cover art aims to preserve the many types of popular music in the United States during the First World War.
https://library.brown.edu/cds/sheetmusic/ww1/index.html
Sheet Music Collection, University of Missouri Kansas Digital Special Collections
The University of Missouri-Kansas provides digitized original sheet music from the United States. Sheet music for both World Wars can be found in this collection.
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umkc/islandora/object/umkc:sheetmusic
Liste der digitalisierten Zeitungen, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin provides digital copies of 171 German and foreign German-language newspapers. The database and newspapers are in German.
http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/
Zeitungsportal NRW, zeit.punkt NRW
Funded by the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia, this project aims at digitizing local newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia from the period of 1801-1945.
Aera
In 2014, the magazine Aera republished newspaper articles that had been published exactly 100 years ago in Germany.
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919, Library of Congress
The complete edition of the newspaper, “The Stars and Stripes,” published in France by the United States Army from February 1918 to June 1919. The eight-page weekly featured news, poetry, cartoons and sports coverage.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
Photo Archive, LIFE Magazine
World War I photographs in the LIFE photo archive, hosted by Google.
Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg – online, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
An online archive of 19 German and French language “trench papers” from World War I, digitalized and published by the University of Heidelberg Library.
http://feldzeitungen.uni-hd.de
Historische Bestände - digital, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
The University of Heidelberg's digital collection contains a wealth of historical sources including a large collection of German books, newspapers and magazines.
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html
Die Kriegssammlung der Fürstlichen Bibliothek Detmold, Lippische Landesbibliothek
An online archive of 42 German soldier newspapers from World War I, digitalized by the Lippe State Library (Lippische Landesbibliothek).
http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/llb/nav/classification/1086972
Jüdische Periodika 1806-1938, Compact Memory, RWTH Aachen University
An online archive of Jewish newspapers and periodicals from 1806 to 1938.
ANNO – Austrian Newspapers Online, The National Austrian Library
An online archive of Austrian newspapers and periodicals from 1700 to 1941. There is also a section, “Extraausgaben des 1. Weltkrieges,” containing newspapers’ special editions – often only a single page – during WWI.
Luxemburgensia online, The National Library of Luxembourg
An online archive of the Luxembourg National Library’s collection of newspapers, periodicals, literature, reference works and post cards. Of primary relevance for WWI research is the postcard collection.
http://www.luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/home.pl?
Dutch newspaper database 1618-1995, Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Historische Kranten
A collection of Dutch newspapers from 1618 to 1995; Dutch-language only.
Trove, National Library of Australia
The Trove database offer 488,292,314 digitized historic books, images, newspapers, maps and more.
Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
The Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers has digitized thousands of historical newspapers from the Spanish-speaking world and includes the ability to search for any word on any page of any digital newspaper.
Hemeroteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional de España
Hemeroteca Digital is part of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica project, providing public access to the newspaper collection of Biblioteca Nacional de España.
http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/HemerotecaDigital/
1914-1918 Der Erste Weltkrieg im Spiegel hessischer Regionalzeitungen, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
A collection of regional newspapers from Hesse during the First World War.
Bibliothèque Numérique de Lyon
The bibliothèque numérique de Lyon digitized French trench logs and trench newspaper from the First World War.
http://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/BML:BML_02PER01001COL00002?&hitPageSize=6&hitTotal=11&hitStart=7
The Belgian War Press
The Belgian War Press presents a digitized collection of over 100 Belgian newspapers which were written or distributed secretly during the First and Second World Wars. In addition, the website offers information on clandestine Belgian newspapers as well as on Belgian press censored during the First World War.
http://warpress.cegesoma.be/en
News of the Great War
A digital collection of press material published in Belgium during the First World War. Users can browse through 360,000 pages worth of trench papers, underground press, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and leaflets.
https://hetarchief.be/
Russian newspapers of the Great War and Civil War 1914-1922
A project digitizing Russian newspapers of the Great War and Civil War 1914-1922. The Project is carried out under the auspices of INION RAS (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Science, Russian Academy of Science) and History of Motherland Foundation.
http://newspapers.historyrussia.org
World War I Pamphlet Collection, UNCG Digital Collections
This collection of 412 pamphlets from the First World War contains pamphlets on military campaigns, women's labour and civilian support of the war.
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/worldwaripamphlets
World War I Pamphlet Collection, Penn Libraries
This collection of World War I pamphlets, hosted by Penn Libraries, contains pamphlets from America, Britain, France and Sweden.
LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource
LUCERNA is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century. This database includes details of slide sets, slide images, readings and other texts related to slide sets, lantern hardware, people and organisations involved in lantern history, and much more, including slides from the First World War.
Allied Posters of World War I, Temple University Libraries
This collection, by Temple University Libraries, contains over 1,500 posters from the allied powers in World War I.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16002coll9
French World War I Posters, University of Illinois Library
This website presents digitised versions of 105 posters from the University of Illinois archives that were published in France during the First World War. Each poster is accompanied by a transcription of the French text and an English translation.
https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/8116a380-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-c
Canadian Wartime Propaganda, Canadian War Museum
This database of war posters is from the collection of the Canadian War Museum. The database is available in French and English.
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/propaganda/collection_e.shtml
Canadian Posters from the First World War, Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
The Archives of Ontario provides numerous high definition Canadian posters from the First World War relating to both military and civilian life. The exhibit consists of posters relating to Victory Bonds, The Canadian Patriotic Bond, increasing production, recruitment, and a poster gallery.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/index.aspx
War Poster Collection, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division
This database of World War I and II posters, hosted by the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division, includes examples of Dutch, German, American and British posters.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/postersweb/
World War Poster Collection, UNT Digital Library
This collection of war posters includes French, American and German posters which exhort the civilian populations to buy war bonds, support the war and help to provide food aid.
http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/wwpc/browse/?fq=untl_decade%3A1910-1919
American War Posters from the First World War, Bancroft Library
168 digitized American posters from World War I, hosted by Bancroft Library.
Plakat-Datenbank der Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte: Ausschnitt Erster Weltkrieg, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
This collection of German posters from the First World War, hosted by the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, includes proclamations from German military authorities in the occupied territories. The database and posters are in German.
http://avanti.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/wk1plakat/
"Take Up the Sword of Justice," British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection, Georgetown University
The online exhibition displays 25 British posters created during WWI and held by the Roger N. Mohovich Collection.
Canadian War Posters, McGill University Library Digital Collections
The holdings of the Print Collection in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division include some 250 Canadian posters from the two World Wars. The website contains basic descriptions in French and English and images of each poster, an artist index, a search function, and an essay about Canadian War Posters. The search function enables users to search by World War, category, artist and keyword.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/
Postcards
14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards), Université de Fribourg
The digital collection “14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards)” was created at the Université de Fribourg with postcards from the holdings of the Swiss National Library in Bern. The postcards have been arranged around six themes, for example “propaganda & ideology” and “humour & satire”. The website is in French.
World War I Postcards from the Bowman Gray Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This collection of First World War postcards includes French, American and Russian postcards. The database is in English, and English translations are provided for postcards in other languages.
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/graypc
World War I Photograph Albums and Postcards, The New York Public Library Digital Collections
This collection from the New York Public Library consists of four exhibitions titled, Under the Red Cross flag at Home and Abroad: Base Hospital Unit #44 and Evacuation Hospital #5, German World War I Photographs and Postcards, Photographs of World War I Battlefields, Captured German Installations and Allied Installations, and Usines Delahaye; collaboration des femmes a la defense nationale, guerre europeenne.
Picture Postcards from World War I, zeno.org
An online collection of picture postcards from WWI, grouped into categories such as “regimental jobs” and “beer and games”.
http://www.zeno.org/Bildpostkarten/M/Erster+Weltkrieg
Historische Bildpostkarten, Universität Osnabrück, Sammlung Prof. Dr. S. Giesbrecht: Der Erste Weltkrieg auf der Bildpostkarte
The database contains more than thousand picture postcards produced during WWI, sorted by categories such as “war propaganda” and “music and songs”.
https://bildpostkarten.uni-osnabrueck.de/
First World War postcards from the George Eastman House
A collection of Entente postcards, mostly French, uploaded to Flickr by the George Eastman House.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157608880152065
Fronterlebnis und Nachkriegsordnung
This collection of articles focusses on the effects and perception of the First World War. The articles are in German.
http://www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/md=EWK-Inhalt
The Memorial Park for the Battle of Jutland
The website accompanying the physical Memorial Park for the Battle of Jutland.
http://www.jutlandbattlememorial.com/english.html
Kommunismusgeschichte, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
A database of resources concerning the history of communism and accompanied by images, films, podcast, external links and maps.
https://www.kommunismusgeschichte.de
100 Year Legacy, The Lasting Impact of World War I, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal compiled a hundred legacies - from flamethrowers to fashion - of the First World War which shape our societies until today.
https://graphics.wsj.com/100-legacies-from-world-war-1/
100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, 1914/2014, Deutschlandradio
This website commemorates the First World War with articles and essays, which can be read, listened to online or downloaded as podcasts. The website is in German.
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg.1952.de.html
1914-1918: la Grande Guerre vue du Sénat, procès-verbaux et rapports des commissions, le Sénat
The French senate’s collection of digitised papers about the war. The documents and descriptions are in French.
http://www.senat.fr/histoire/1914_1918/index.html
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, Library of Congress
The Nation's Forum Collection from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division consists of 59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding WWI and the subsequent presidential election of 1920.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
Dossier thématique 1914-1918, l’Assemblée nationale
The French national assembly’s thematic dossier on the years 1914 to 1918. The website is in French.
http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/decouvrir-l-assemblee/histoire/1914-1918
HANSARD 1803-2005, Hansard Digitization Project, Directorate of Information Services of the House of Commons & the Library of the House of Lords
An online archive of British parliamentary debates, written answers and statements, Lords and Grand Committee reports, lists of speakers, constituencies, offices, acts, bills, and divisions, digitalized by Hansard, the Official Report of debates in the British Parliament.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/
The Cabinet Papers 1915-1986, The National Archives
A selection of British cabinet papers from 1915 to 1986. The documents are divided into three categories: The United Kingdom and the World; The Economy, Business and Resources; and Society and the Welfare State.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/default.htm
The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives, National Library of Ireland
The online exhibition/educational resource provides context information as well as a rich variety of material including books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, maps, proclamations and manuscript material (approx. 500 items) on the Irish Easter Rising in 1916.
http://www.nli.ie/1916/exhibition/en/
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy
An online collection of original documents concerning Irish foreign policy, including many on WWI
Die Julikrise 1914 in den Akten des Auswärtigen Amts
Digitalized documents on the July Crisis from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. This material is in German.
https://archiv.diplo.de/arc-de/im-archiv-forschen/03a-1-julikrise-1914
German documents of the First World War
This collection includes 36,000 pages of institutional documents from the German General Staff, staffs, military units, the Prussian War Ministry, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others.
Sources on the Development of the Socialist International (1907-1919), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
This collection of digital sources contains the 23 volumes of the Histoire de la Deuxième Internationale, 1889-1914, published by Édition Minkoff, consisting of publications by the congresses of the International between 1888 and 1917. Available in German, French and English.
http://library.fes.de/si-online/index.html
The Laws of War, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School
This primary source database presents the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Geneva Conventions and Miscellaneous Treaties, Conventions and Agreements.
Military History Research Centre, Canadian War Museum
The online catalogue for the George Metcalf Archival Collection and the Hartland Molson Library Collection. These extensive national collections of primary and secondary research material document Canada’s military history from the colonial period to the present, and are particularly strong in the First and Second World Wars.
https://catalogue.warmuseum.ca
Three Pilots – One War
This project, a cooperation among Royal Air Force Museum, the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, and the Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr, publishes English, French, and German pilots’ wartime letters 100 years after they were written and organizes related exhibitions. The website is available in English, French, and German.
Portal Militärgeschichte, Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V.
This website aims to provide information about all aspects of military history and to help connect those interested in military history. Portal Militärgeschichte has published a number of academic articles on military history, has a list of events, and offers a forum for researchers interested in military history. The website is in German.
http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/
Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial published a series of Australian Imperial Forces' war diaries from the First World War.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1338583
Journaux des unités engagées dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Ministère des Armées
The French armed forces published a digitized archive of their units' First World War diaries. It consists of over three million pages of diaries from the Armée de Terre, the Aéronautique militaire and the French navy.
Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front, The National Archives and The Imperial War Museums
This project has digitized 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries from the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War. Its crowd-sourcing features allow users to help tag and classify the collection.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-unit-war-diaries.htm
Fronts and Campaigns
Campaign Atlas to the Great War, West Point Academy, Department of History
A database of campaign and battle maps from WWI
http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx
Virtual Exhibition on the Gallipoli Campaign, Auckland City Libraries
A virtual exhibition on the Gallipolli campaign comprising of contemporary newspaper accounts, photographs and other images.
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/gallipoli/index.html
Gallipoli: The Drama of the Dardanelles, Imperial War Museums
A collection of video and audio material and photographs, complemented by illustrated documents on key aspects of the campaign
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/gallipoli
Western Front Association
The Western Front Association (WFA) was formed with the aim of furthering interest in The Great War of 1914-1918 and perpetuating the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders. The website contains numerous articles and visual-media sources on an array of topics.
http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/
The Battle of Jutland Centenary Initiative
Website providing a digital curation of the Battle of Jutland, including podcasts, animations, stories, maps and other sources.
Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War (International Committee of the Red Cross Archives)
Digitized documents from various prisons of war, including postcards, reports on camp life, soldiers’ accounts, death notices, and other records. During the First World War, 10 million servicemen and civilians were captured and sent to detention camps. The belligerent countries involved provided lists of prisoners to the ICRC, which created an index card for each prisoner and detainee. The website allows users to search through all 5 million of them.
https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/
Blue Cross World War One Collection
The Blue Cross cared for sick and injured horses and sent veterinary supplies to the British and Allied armies. Their war archive contains audio slideshows and a full digital copy of the organization’s monograph The Blue Cross at War 1914-’18 and 1939-’45.
https://www.bluecross.org.uk/blue-cross-world-war-one-collection
Basel Mission Archives
The photographic archives of the Basel Mission in Ghana, India, China, Cameroon and Borneo.
Historical and contemporary material for the study of Africa, British Library
Guides to the British Library’s Africa collections, including links to digitised materials.
https://www.bl.uk/subjects/africa
Image Collection of the German Colonial Society, University Library, Frankfurt a. M.
The collection comprises approximately 50,000 images and covers the following regions: Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, China, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Micronesia, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Western Samoa.
http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
South African History Online
An encyclopedia on South African history and art, including digitized collections.
Great War in Africa Association (GWAA)
The Great War in Africa Association provides resources and information on all campaigns of the First World War in Africa. It aims to connect researchers, highlight relevant sources of information on the campaigns, and raise awareness of the military campaigns in Africa during the First World War, especially for people living and working in the regions.
Discovering Anzacs
A selection of government records about Australian and New Zealand soldiers in WWI and the Boer War, courtesy of National Archives of Australia and Archives New Zealand, as well as personal users. Includes profiles of individual soldiers, nurses, and others; group stories; and photo galleries.
http://www.discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/home/
Australians at War Film Archive, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs
The Film Archive “Australians at War” is an Australian Government initiative designed to film and record the stories of over two thousand war veterans who served from World War I to today in the Australian Defence Force.
http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/
100 Years of Anzac, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs
This website, run by the Australian Government's Department of Veterans' Affairs, commemorates Anzacs. It provides histories of Australia in World War I and II as well as teaching materials, and tells the stories of veterans.
http://www.anzacportal.dva.gov.au/
Australian War Memorial, The Australian War Memorial
A digitalized collection of war diaries, documents, artwork, photographs, keepsakes and other items detailing the Australian experience of war in a number of different war and peacekeeping operations, including WWI.
Trove, National Library of Australia
The Trove database offer 488,292,314 digitized historic books, images, newspapers, maps and more.
Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial published a series of Australian Imperial Forces' war diaries from the First World War.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4
Virtual War Memorial Australia
The Virtual War Memorial presents profiles of Australians who have served in conflict (including WW1), with data linked by campaign, memorial, unit, home town etc. Research is crowdsourced and moderated, and the Memorial has a strong educational orientation.
First World War 1914-1919, State Library of Queensland
Working with Arts and Culture from Google, the State Library of Queensland provides photographs from the Australian experience in the Great War.
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/first-world-war/uQIymEcVLn4hJA
Technisches Museum Wien mit Österreichischer Mediathek
This website provides a timeline of World War I with audio-visual elements. The website is in German.
http://www.mediathek.at/erster-weltkrieg
ANNO – Austrian Newspapers Online, The National Austrian Library
An online archive of Austrian newspapers and periodicals from 1700 to 1941. There is also a section, “Extraausgaben des 1. Weltkrieges,” containing newspapers’ special editions – often only a single page – during WWI.
Austria-Forum
A German-language online encyclopedia containing a wealth of information about all things Austria. The site includes several different lexicons and dictionaries with tens of thousands of entries.
Bildarchiv (Photo Archive), The National Austrian Library
An online archive of multiple photo collections, including Europeana Travel, Rübelt-Negativarchiv and Esperanto, containing tens of thousands of photos.
https://onb.wg.picturemaxx.com/
The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
Online exhibition of Schloß Schönbrunn in Vienna, an innovative approach to showcasing WW1 history.
Frontlines and Hinterland, Institute of Political History, Hungary
Frontlines and Hinterland publishes Hungarian Great War newspaper and periodical excerpts alongside commentaries and short articles. Longer blogposts on selected issues supply the reader with a broader thematic overview. The website is available in English and Hungarian.
Digitale Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich
The Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich’s (State Library Upper Austria) collection of digitized texts and prints in public domain.
http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/
1914-1918 Hundert Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
Articles and images focusing on the Austrian involvement in the First World War.
Das Kriegstagebuch des Alfred Hermann Fried
A digital version of the diaries kept by Austrian journalist and pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921).
World War One Sites – The Networld Database
World War One Sites contributes to the preservation of architectural and cultural heritage of the First World War in the Danube region. It documents different types of architectural heritages from war monuments and fortifications to POW-camps and museums in nine different countries.
Denkmal-Heer, Austrian war memorials, Austrian Ministry of Defence
The database offers access and information about memorials on the Austrian Ministry of Defence's properties across Austria. It includes memorials dedicated to individuals, events as well as art and religious memorials. Denkmal-Heer aims to raise awareness, to promote a transparent and open commemoration-culture and to serve as an inventory of existing memorials.
14-18, RTBF
This website, provided by the RTBF, is a multimedia resource on the First World War in Belgium. The website is available is French and English.
The Belgian War Press
The Belgian War Press presents a digitized collection of over 100 Belgian newspapers which were written or distributed secretly during the First and Second World Wars. In addition, the website offers information on clandestine Belgian newspapers as well as on Belgian press censored during the First World War.
http://warpress.cegesoma.be/en
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium
The museum’s website contains brief information on WWI in Flanders in French, Dutch, German and English, including a timeline, casualty database, short biographies and poems.
http://www.inflandersfields.be/
News of the Great War
A digital collection of press material published in Belgium during the First World War. Users can browse through 360,000 pages worth of trench papers, underground press, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and leaflets.
Brussels at War 1914-1918, Archives de la Ville de Bruxelles
The occupation of Brussels during the First World War viewed through the documents of the Archives of the City of Brussels.
http://www.14-18.bruxelles.be/index.php/en/
Archives 14-18 en Wallonie, Belgian National Archives
A gateway to materials of the Wallon provinces of Belgium, including a small database of letters, photographs, posters, court records and more.
Map of museums, cemeteries and other FWW-sites in northern France and Belgium, La Voix du Nord
La Voix du Nord provides an interactive map of museums, cemeteries and other sites in northern France and Belgium. Thousands of places are listed with descriptions, addresses, contacts and opening times.
Wartime Canada
The educational website “Wartime Canada” features photographs, advertisements, music scores, cartoons, and many other documents that provide insight into Canadians' lives in wartime. The items are organized into ten different categories (e.g. fighting, eating, and working) and accompanied by a brief description. The website is available in French and English.
Canada and the First World War, Library and Archives Canada
A collection of documents, photographs and maps detailing Canadian involvement in WWI.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/index-e.html
Canadian Letters and Images Project, Vancouver Island University, Department of History
An online archive of the Canadian war experience (various wars, including WWI) as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. The collections include correspondence, diaries, photographs, postcards and other miscellaneous items. All correspondence has been transcribed, retaining the original spelling, punctuation and paragraph formatting. When available, the transcriptions are accompanied by scans of the original pages.
Héritage, Canadiana
Héritage is a website containing digitalised archival items, including on First Nations and military history. Available in English and French.
The Archives of Ontario Remembers Our Canadian War Heroes, The Archives of Ontario
A selection of letters, documents, drawings and photographs from the Archives’ WWI collections.
www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/gray/index.aspx
Canvas of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum, Canadian War Museum
A virtual exhibition displaying works of art related to Canadian military history, listed according to both war and artist.
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/canvas/cwint01e.shtml
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series, Active History
Active History’s series of articles on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, to its memory today and daily life on the home front.
http://activehistory.ca/papers/canadas-first-world-war-a-centennial-series-on-activehistory-ca/
Canada and the First World War, Canadian War Museum
An online exhibition that tells the story of Canada’s role in the First World War at the international, national, and personal levels. Comprehensive and filled with artifacts from the museum collection, the exhibition is also rich in teacher resources.
http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/
Military History Research Centre, Canadian War Museum
The online catalogue for the George Metcalf Archival Collection and the Hartland Molson Library Collection. These extensive national collections of primary and secondary research material document Canada’s military history from the colonial period to the present, and are particularly strong in the First and Second World Wars.
https://catalogue.warmuseum.ca/
The Great War Centenary Association, Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations
This website deals with Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations during the First World War. The site has over 2,500 transcribed pages from the local newspaper The Brantford Expositor dealing with the men and women who served from the community. Additionally, materials addressing the major issues happening in the community during the First World War can be found on the "Our History" page.
The Newfoundland Regiment and the Great War, The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador
This website tells the story of the Newfoundland Regiment in World War I. It includes photographs, maps and war diaries, which are integrated into the articles. It also hosts a database containing the military files of many of the regiment’s soldiers.
http://www.rnr.therooms.ca/part1_entering_the_great_war.asp
Newfoundland and the Great War, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site
A guide to the Newfoundland experience of the First World War. The website is divided into four sections: articles, images, audio and video.
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/home.html
Newfoundland Regiment History, Newfoundland’s Grand Banks
This website provides transcripts of Newfoundland military documentation from World Wars I and II. The website also hosts photographs and lists the burial sites of soldiers.
Digital Resources of the Herder Institute für Historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung
The Herder Institute für Historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung provides archival resources and articles, as well as databases and catalogues on the history of East Central Europe. The website includes a number of resources on the period of the First World War and the interwar period in East Central Europe.
https://www.herder-institut.de/en/digital-resources
Estonia
Eestlased Esimeses maailmasõjas (Estonians in the First World War)
A crowd-sourced project organized by the Estonian National Archives to gather information on the 100,000 Estonians who fought or otherwise participated in the First World War. The website is in Estonian.
Estonian Film Archives
More than 600 archives have registered and digitized their material. The growing archive contains over 275,000 film, photo, and video sources.
http://www.eha.ee/fa/public//index.php?lang=en&lch=2&lch_gen=2&act=default&nocache=142199868
Fotis, Rahvusarhiiv, The National Archives of Estonia
The photographic database of the National Archives of Estonia. Website available in English and Estonian, records in Estonian.
1914-1918 Hverdagsliv i krigens skygge (1914-1918 Everyday life in the shadow of war), Skoletjenesten Københavns Befæstning og Greve Museum
The website “1914-1918 Hverdagsliv i krigens skygge“ (1914-1918 Everyday life in the shadow of war) focuses on the impact of the First World War on Denmark. It is divided into eight categories. The website is in Danish.
Den Store Krig (The Great War)
Den Store Krig (The Great War) aims to tell the story of Southern Jutland and South Jutlanders in the First World War. The website is in Danish.
http://www.denstorekrig1914-1918.dk/
Første Verdenskrig 1914-1918 (First World War 1914-1918), Det Kongelige Bibliotek
This project explores Danish neutrality in the First World War. It aims to show the many different grounds for neutrality through describing the lives of seven different people. The website is in Danish.
http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/tema/historie/ww1/index.html
Luxembourg
Luxemburgensia online, The National Library of Luxembourg
An online archive of the Luxembourg National Library’s collection of newspapers, periodicals, literature, reference works and post cards. Of primary relevance for WWI research is the postcard collection.
http://www.luxemburgensia.bnl.lu
Éischte Weltkrich: Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Amsterdam en de Eerste Wereldoorlog (Amsterdam and the First World War), Stadsarchief Amsterdam
This website on Amsterdam in the First World War is split into five categories: Culture, Daily Life, The Great War, Military, Social and Refugees. It is hosted by the Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam Municipal Archive) and available in Dutch.
http://amsterdam-eerstewereldoorlog.nl/
Beeldbank, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief
The database of digitalized images from the Amsterdam city archives, in Dutch.
http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/
Dutch newspaper database 1618-1995, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Historische Kranten
A collection of Dutch newspapers from 1618 to 1995; Dutch-language only.
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
A website dedicated to the Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers. It includes a gallery showing of many of his works.
Memory of the Netherlands, National Library of the Netherlands
This database contains images from 132 collections. The descriptions of the objects are mostly in Dutch.
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/en
Norway
DigitaltMuseum, KulturIT
DigitaltMuseum hosts the digitised collections of numerous museums in Norway and Sweden. The object descriptions are in various languages, while the website is available in Norwegian, Swedish, and English.
Spain
Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
The Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers has digitized thousands of historical newspapers from the Spanish-speaking world and includes the ability to search for any word on any page of any digital newspaper.
Hemeroteca Digital, Biblioteca Nacional de España
Hemeroteca Digital is part of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica project, providing public access to the newspaper collection of Biblioteca Nacional de España.
http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/HemerotecaDigital/
Sweden
DigitaltMuseum, KulturIT
DigitaltMuseum hosts the digitised collections of numerous museums in Norway and Sweden. The object descriptions are in various languages, while the website is available in Norwegian, Swedish, and English.
Switzerland
Memobase
Digitalized collection of over 100,000 audio and visual files from thirty-nine Swiss cultural institutions. Objects can be browsed by time period (including 1910-1919), format, or genre, or searched by keyword.
14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards), Université de Fribourg
The digital collection “14-18: La Suisse en cartes postales (14-18: Switzerland in Postcards)” was created at the Université de Fribourg with postcards from the holdings of the Swiss National Library in Bern. The postcards have been arranged around six themes, for example “propaganda & ideology” and “humour & satire”. The website is in French.
Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland)
The online database “Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland)” provides many digitised official documents as well as information on people and organisations that were active in Swiss foreign policy. The website is available in English, German, French and Italian.
The Swiss Federal Archives on Wikimedia Commons
The Swiss Federal Archives has made its collection of hundreds of photos from Switzerland during the First World War accessible online. The photos are primarily of military-related topics.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Swiss_Federal_Archives
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
The Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland offers thematic, geographic and biographic articles with the latest research on Switzerland’s history.
1914-1918 : la Grande Guerre vue du Sénat, procès-verbaux et rapports des commissions, le Sénat
The French senate’s collection of digitised papers about the war. The documents and descriptions are in French.
http://www.senat.fr/histoire/1914_1918/index.html
Dossier thématique 1914-1918, l’Assemblée nationale
The French national assembly’s thematic dossier on the years 1914 to 1918. The website is in French.
http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/decouvrir-l-assemblee/histoire/1914-1918
Historial de La Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War)
The website of the Museum of the Great War located in Péronne, France.
Grand Mémorial
Digitized federal and regional documents from the French Ministry of Culture including military registration papers, military news bulletins, and a database of monuments and other commemorative sites. The website and all documents are in French.
http://www.culture.fr/Genealogie/Grand-Memorial
Plateforme 14/18, une famille dans la Grande Guerre
The site hosts the letters and photographs exchanged among members of the Résal family during the First World War. A number of essays – on themes ranging from women’s involvement in the war effort to wartime postal services – also provide historical context. The website is in French.
French World War I Posters, University of Illinois Library
This website presents digitised versions of 105 posters from the University of Illinois Archives that have been published in France during the First World War. Each poster is accompanied by a transcription of the French text and an English translation.
http://guides.library.illinois.edu/french-wwi-posters
La contemporaine
La contemporaine has an important collection of photographs, newspapers, and objects related to the First World War, parts of which are now available online.
Material on the First World War from the collections of La contemporaine on Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/98069937@N05/
14-18, Une Guerre Photographique
“14-18, Une Guerre Photographique” provides issues of a “photo-illustrated weekly” as well as an essay on photographic methods during the war. Available in French and English.
http://www.uneguerrephotographique.eu/fr/miroir-menu.php
La Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
La Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale was founded in 2012 by the French government to organize, coordinate, and publicize commemorations of the First World War. Contents are available in French, English, and German.
Gallica, digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
A digitalization project containing millions of documents, books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, notes and audio clips from the French national library
Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France, Comité Régional de Tourisme en Nord-Pas de Calais
The website can be navigated via a map, timeline or different thematic chapters. The articles include external links and archive pictures and are available in French, English, German and Dutch.
http://www.remembrancetrails-northernfrance.com/
Archives Photographiques, La Médiathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
This online, French-language photo archive provide access to photograph negatives from various wars, including WWI.
http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/
Les marchés de guerre 14-18
A digital collection of files on war markets (1914-1918) created by the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and its Centre des Archives Économiques et Financières (CAEF) at Savigny-le-Temple.
https://www.economie.gouv.fr/caef-marches-publics-14-18
Testaments de guerre de poilus parisiens (1914-1918)
A digital collection of wills created by soldiers from Paris during the First World War. The 134 wills edited here are kept at the Archives nationales de France.
http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/testaments-de-poilus
Map of museums, cemeteries and other FWW-sites in northern France and Belgium, La Voix du Nord
La Voix du Nord provides an interactive map of museums, cemeteries and other sites in northern France and Belgium. Thousands of places are listed with descriptions, addresses, contacts and opening times.
Bibliothèque Numérique de Lyon
The bibliothèque numérique de Lyon digitized French trench logs and trench newspaper from the First World War.
http://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/BML:BML_02PER01001COL00002?&hitPageSize=6&hitTotal=11&hitStart=7
Journaux des unités engagées dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Ministère des Armées
The French armed forces published a digitized archive of their units' First World War diaries. It consists of over three million pages of diaries from the Armée de Terre, the Aéronautique militaire and the French navy.
Die Julikrise 1914 in den Akten des Auswärtigen Amts
Digitalized documents on the July Crisis from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. This material is in German.
https://archiv.diplo.de/arc-de/im-archiv-forschen/03a-1-julikrise-1914
100 Titel "Baden im Ersten Weltkrieg", Badische Landesbibliothek
The Badische Landesbibliothek (BLB) is digitizing 100 books and brochures either published in or about Baden during the war. The books are in German.
http://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/Drucke/nav/classification/1300074
Grosser Bilderatlas des Weltkrieges, University of Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin provides three editions of the “Grosser Bilderatlas des Weltkrieges”, from 1915, 1916 and 1919. The atlas is in German.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=HISTORY.BILDERATLAS
Der Erste Weltkrieg, 1914 – Der Weg ins Verderben, ZDF
This timeline contains pictures, video material and articles about World War I. The timeline is in German.
Der Erste Weltkrieg, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
A collection of articles on the First World War with accompanying videos and pictures. The website is in German.
http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/deutsche-geschichte/ersterweltkrieg/
Erster Weltkrieg, Süddeutsche Zeitung
This feature in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” commemorates the First World War. The newspaper is in German.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/thema/Erster_Weltkrieg
Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg, Clio-online
A continually updated database of new research and digitized sources on World War I, focusing on the effect of the war on German and European history. The website is in German.
http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/site/lang__de-DE/1/Default.aspx
100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
This website hosts the First World War Collection of the Deutsche Bücherei. The collection has been partially digitized and published along with short explanatory articles. The website is available in English and German.
http://erster-weltkrieg.dnb.de/WKI/Web/EN/Home/home.html
1914 - Mitten in Europa. Das Rheinland und der Erste Weltkrieg, Landschaftsverband Rheinland
This project commemorates World War I with events, publications and online exhibitions about the war in Rhineland, Germany. The website is in German.
http://www.lvr.de/de/nav_main/kultur/berdasdezernat_1/1914/1914_1.jsp
The Bundesarchiv’s (German Federal Archive) portal on the First World War
This portal on the First World War has an impressive digitized collection of over 700,000 documents and photos related to World War I. The website also contains a number of online galleries that focus on specific aspects and events of the war, as well as a collection of panoramic photos from the war.
https://www.ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/
First World War Commemoration Website Ettlingen, Germany
A local initiative from the town of Ettlingen, this website offers photos, soldiers’ letters from the battlefield, diaries, newspaper articles, and material cultural objects documenting the experience of soldiers from Ettlingen in the First World War.
http://www.ettlingenww1.blogspot.de
100 Years First World War: Against Forgetting, German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge)
This project from the German War Graves Commission offers a variety of online material, ranging from virtual memorial exhibitions, photos and educational materials on the First World War to a search engine of German war graves and memorial sites.
http://www.100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg.eu/
Images from the Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) on Wikimedia Commons
A collection of more than 80,000 image files relating to German history, uploaded by the German Federal Archives to Wikimedia Commons in 2008.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern (DGDB )/ German History in Documents and Images (GHDI): Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918), Edited by Prof. Roger Chickering and Dr. Steven Chase Gummer with Seth Rotramel
A comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present. The project comprises ten sections, one of which addresses Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918). Each section includes an introduction to key developments in Germany's social, political, and cultural history during the period, as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and maps.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=11&language=german
Der Erste Weltkrieg, LeMo, Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum)
An educational resource providing background information on WWI, sponsored by the German Historical Museum.
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/wk1/
Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V.
A collection of German armed forces’ correspondence with friends and family from 1914-1918.
http://www.exponate-online.de/e_exponat.asp?a=1&e=27
Feldpost aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
With over 700 examples of personal letters, parcels, and post cards, this collection consists of first-hand German accounts of the First World War.
https://www.briefsammlung.de/feldpost-erster-weltkrieg/
Digitaler Bestandskatalog (digital inventory), Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
An online inventory of more than 30,000 items held by the Germanic National museum, the largest museum of cultural history within the German-speaking region.
German Picture Post Cards from World War I, zeno.org
An online collection of picture postcards from WWI, grouped by categories such as regimental jobs and beer and games
http://www.zeno.org/Bildpostkarten/M/Erster+Weltkrieg
Historische Bildpostkarten, Universität Osnabrück, Sammlung Prof. Dr. S. Giesbrecht: Der Erste Weltkrieg auf der Bildpostkarte
The database contains more than thousand picture postcards produced during WWI, sorted by categories such as “war propaganda” and “music and songs”.
https://bildpostkarten.uni-osnabrueck.de/
Image Collection of the German Colonial Society, University Library, Frankfurt a. M.
The collection comprises of approx. 50,000 images and covers the following regions: Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, China, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Micronesia, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Western Samoa.
http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
Library of Contemporary History: First World War Portal
The Library of Contemporary History (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, BfZ) is the biggest special library of the history and politics of the 20th century in Germany. The library has been marking the centenary of the First World War with launching a First World War Portal (Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg). The portal provides information on the library’s activities and digital collections concerning the Great War.
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/bibliothek-fuer-zeitgeschichte/themenportal-erster-weltkrieg/
Plakat-Datenbank der Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte: Ausschnitt Erster Weltkrieg, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
This collection of German posters from the First World War, hosted by the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, includes proclamations from German military authorities in the occupied territories. The database and posters are in German.
http://avanti.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/wk1plakat/
Themenbibliothek Erster Weltkrieg und Novemberrevolution, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)
A digital research tool providing access to the Bavarian State Library’s World War collection (founded in 1914) as well as its extensive research literature corpus on the Great War and subsequent German November Revolution.
https://www.historicum.net/metaopac/start.do?View=wk1
German documents of the First World War
This collection includes 36,000 pages of institutional documents from the German General Staff, staffs, military units, the Prussian War Ministry, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others.
http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org
100(0) Schlüsseldokumente zur deutschen Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert
100(0) Key Documents on German History in the Twentieth Century compiles selected audio-visual sources. Introductory comments explain the relevance of the source, the current state of scholarly research and advice on further reading. The documents can be accessed as full texts and as photocopies of original facsimiles.
Historische Bestände- digital, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
The University of Heidelberg digital collection contains a wealth of historical sources including a large collection of German books, newspapers and magazines.
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html
Maueranschläge, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
A collection of ordinances posted by the German army and military government. Some 2,500 of the 2,700 digitized ordinances are from the First World War.
https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=5544
1914-1918 Der Erste Weltkrieg im Spiegel hessischer Regionalzeitungen, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
A collection of regional newspapers from Hessia during the First World War.
Die Kriegssammlung der Fürstlichen Bibliothek Detmold, Lippische Landesbibliothek
An online archive of 42 German soldier newspapers from World War I, digitalized by the Lippe State Library (Lippische Landesbibliothek).
http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/llb/nav/classification/1086972
Erster Weltkrieg, Filmportal
A collection of German video footage from the First World War.
https://www.filmportal.de/videos?field_video_title_value=&field_video_thema_target_id%5B689%5D=689
The Cabinet Papers 1915-1986, The National Archives
A selection of British cabinet papers from 1915 to 1986. The documents are divided into three categories: The United Kingdom and the World; The Economy, Business and Resources; and Society and the Welfare State.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/default.htm
Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front, The National Archives and The Imperial War Museums
This project has digitized 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries from the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War. Its crowd-sourcing features allow users to help tag and classify the collection.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-unit-war-diaries.htm
Focus on film: The Great War, National Archives Learning Curve
A collection of short clips with background information from The National Archives’ Film Archives. The material is predominantly from 1915-16 and focuses on the Battle of the Somme.
Lions Led by Donkeys, University of Birmingham
This project documents British generals in the First World War. A career description has been written for each general, detailing matters such as their recruitment, promotion and dismissal.
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/research/projects/lionsdonkeys/index.aspx
British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent
The British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library holds collections by over three hundred cartoonists. Many of these have been digitised and catalogued, and can be found among the 170,000 digitized items on the BCA website.
First World War Project of The National Archives
Offers a vast collection of digitized images and documents on British involvement in the First World War. The collection includes digitized soldiers’ service and pension records, British war diaries, Women’s Auxiliary Service records, to name just a few.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/
The First World War: Sources for History, National Archives & the Imperial War Museums
The online exhibition makes available a selection of varied WWI source material (documents, film and sound) held by The National Archives and the Imperial War Museums. The main galleries, “The First World War, 1914-18” and “Aftermath,” feature documents giving an overview of the overall history of the war and its consequences. “Britain and the War” looks at its effect on Britain. “The Military Conflict” provides examples of records relating to the fighting, while “Service Records for the First World War” introduces visitors to the main categories of service records.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm
Collections Search, Imperial War Museums, London
A catalogue of more than 600,000 items, including aircraft, weapons, interviews, music, posters, letters and more from the Imperial War Museums' collections. 90,000 objects also have digitized images, sound or video.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search
The First World War Poetry Archive, University of Oxford
An online repository of more than 7,000 items of text, images, audio and video. The archive consists of collections of primary material from major poets of the period. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museums, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public (see “The Great War Archive” at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/), and a set of specially developed educational resources.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
World Wars, World War One, BBC History
A collection of articles on the causes, events and people of WWI, as well as virtual tours, animated maps and other, largely copyrighted, material such as photographs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
HANSARD 1803-2005, Hansard Digitization Project, Directorate of Information Services of the House of Commons & the Library of the House of Lords
An online archive of British parliamentary debates, written answers and statements, Lords and Grand Committee reports, lists of speakers, constituencies, offices, acts, bills, and divisions, digitalized by Hansard, the Official Report of debates in the British Parliament.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/
World War One Website of the British Library
This website contains numerous articles, digitized sources, photos, and teaching materials on all topics related to World War One. It has a particularly extensive section devoted to the historiography of the First World War.
http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/historical-debates
First World War Official Photographs, National Library of Scotland
An easily searchable and extensive collection of photographs from the First World War.
http://digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/?browse=yes
First World War in Focus, National Army Museum, London
Discover personal stories from the National Army Museum’s Collection demonstrating the impact of the war. Explore an interactive global map, timeline and further sources.
http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/
First World War Volunteers, British Red Cross
The database contains the records of some 90,000 volunteers who served in the United Kingdom and on the European continent.
Scotland’s First World War Sites, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Database of nearly 1,200 locations in Scotland each containing a varying quantity of images. Search catalogues for prints, drawings and manuscripts as well as specific subjects such as training trenches, airfields, hospitals, monuments, objects and maritime items.
https://canmore.org.uk/site/search?keyword=first+world+war&sort_typ=collectionCount&sort_ord=-1
First World War, National Army Museum
Providing stories, events, first-hand accounts, and materials, the National Army Museum’s website provides numerous utilities to study the British Army during the First World War.
https://www.nam.ac.uk/subjects/first-world-war
"Take Up the Sword of Justice," British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection, Georgetown University
The online exhibition displays 25 British posters created during WWI and held by the Roger N. Mohovich Collection.
Ireland
Ireland WWI
An information hub and networking forum for scholars, projects, and organizations studying Ireland’s role in the First World War, including centenary commemorations. Features profiles of researchers, academic and public projects, and related museums and associations, as well as a bibliography of relevant titles and a list of educational resources.
The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives, National Library of Ireland
The online exhibition/educational resource provides context information as well as a rich variety of material including books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, maps, proclamations and manuscript material (approx. 500 items) on the Irish Easter Rising in 1916.
http://www.nli.ie/1916/exhibition/en/
Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy
A gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge, with a small collection of WWI material.
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy
An online collection of original documents concerning Irish foreign policy, including many on WWI
Century Ireland 1913-1923
An online historical newspaper that tells the story of Irish life a century ago. News reporting on life in Ireland is supported by a wealth of visual, archival and contextual material to facilitate an understanding of the complexities of Irish life 100 years ago.
http://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Letters of 1916, Maynooth University
A crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916).
http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie
Soldiers’ Wills, The National Archives of Ireland
A digitized collection of the wills of Irish soldiers who died while serving in the British Army. The majority of wills date from World War I.
http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary: An Irish Story of the Great War, University of Limerick
This online exhibition charts the lives of the Armstrong family from Moyaliffe, Co. Tipperary, Ireland during the First World War, beginning in late June 1914. Readers can relive the experience of this family in wartime through weekly updates from their diaries and letters.
India in WW1
The Joint USI-MEA Centenary Commemoration project highlights the oft-forgotten role of India in the First World War and commemorates those soldiers who served during the War. The project is aimed at exploring India’s engagement in the war from a variety of perspectives.
Empire, Faith & War
A database of family memories, memorabilia and archival records of Sikhs in WW1 developed with the help of members of the community in their role as citizen historians.
La Grande Guerra più 100
“La Grande Gurra più 100” provides an online calender which follows the war month for month, one hundred years later. The calender has a narrative as well as historical material. The website is in Italian.
http://www.lagrandeguerrapiu100.it/
Vedere la Grande Guerra, Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano
This website provides images of the First World War, including art, film and photography. It is in Italian.
http://movio.beniculturali.it/mcrr/immaginidellagrandeguerra/
“14 18. documenti e immagini della grande Guerra”, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Documents from contemporary popular journals and contemporary photographs relating to the WWI, focusing on the Italian Army and the Italian front.
Prima guerra mondiale, Archivio centrale dello stato
A collection of Italian First World War photographs.
http://dati.acs.beniculturali.it/PrimaGuerraMondiale/
La Grande Guerra 1914-1918, L'Espresso
A digital collection of Italian diaries during the First World War, which are searchable by theme, author or location.
https://espresso.repubblica.it/grandeguerra/index.php?ref=twhe
Trentino Grande Guerra
The official website of the Autonomous Province of Trento for the Centenary of the First World War cared for by the Italian Historical Museum of War in Rovereto.
http://www.trentinograndeguerra.it/
L'Università di Torino nella Grande Guerra
L'Università di Torino's digital collection of First World War documents and images.
http://www.grandeguerra.unito.it/
BSMC - Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea
Collection of photographs, postcards, prints, paintings, manifests, periodicals, journals and other significant documents
Voci della grande guerra
A digital archive of Italian soldiers’ writings from the First World War. The texts, chosen by historians and linguists, are intended to represent the various and diverse ways of describing and narrating the First World War.
Find WW1 Content, First World War Centenary Programme Office
WW100 provides a New Zealand perspective on World War I. The feature “Find WW1 Content” searches audio, video and images related to New Zealand’s role in the war.
http://ww100.govt.nz/find-WW1-content
New Zealand and the First World War (Ministry for Culture and Heritage)
This website highlights New Zealand’s role in World War I and the many ways in which the New Zealand population experienced the war. Articles on the website discuss different aspects and events of the war.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/first-world-war
Cenotaph database (Auckland War Memorial Museum)
This database has information on the servicemen who fought in World War I for New Zealand.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph
Archives New Zealand, World War One records
This website makes the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Personnel Files for New Zealanders who served in the First World War accessible online.
Encyclopædia Iranica, Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation
Encyclopædia Iranica is an encyclopedia on Iranian history, with a large online offering.
Gallipoli: The Drama of the Dardanelles, Imperial War Museums
A collection of video and audio material and photographs, complemented by illustrated documents on key aspects of the campaign
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/gallipoli
Phototheca Afghanica, Afghanistan Institute in Switzerland
The Afghanistan Institute in Switzerland, in close co-operation with Afghan and international experts, has uploaded some 5000 old photographs, including pictures, as well as other documents, of the German diplomatic mission to Kabul during the First World War.
http://www.phototheca-afghanica.ch
Ottoman History Podcast
This series of podcasts on Middle Eastern history covers many World War I themes.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/
Virtual Exhibition on the Gallipoli Campaign, Auckland City Libraries
A virtual exhibition on the Gallipoli campaign comprising of contemporary newspaper accounts, photographs and other images
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/gallipoli/index.html
Gelibolu'yu Anlamak (Understanding Gallipoli)
A Turkish-English website publishing articles, interviews and book reviews about Ottoman WWI battlefronts.
Portugal 1914-1918, Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“Portugal 1914-1918” focuses on the impact of the First World War on Portugal. The website is in Portuguese.
Arquivo Histórico Militar Digital Collection
The Arquivo Histórico Militar’s digital collection of documents and images.
Dário da Grande Guerra: Testemunhas Portugueses, República Portuguesa Cultura/Biblioteca National de Portugal
“Diary of the Great War: Portugese Witnesses” is an online exhibition and database focusing on Portugese first-hand accounts of the First World War.
Russia’s Great War & Revolution Project
Russia’s Great War & Revolution Project is an international collective of leading historians and research institutions dedicated to re-evaluating the role of the First World War in Russian history. This website offers information about the project as well as a variety of articles on various aspects of Russia in the First World War.
http://www.russiasgreatwar.org/wp/
World War I photographs from the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
This album contains a collection of photographs held by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Included are photographs taken by German soldiers in the conquered territories of the Russian Empire.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/sets/72157647955718225/
100(0) Schlüsseldokumente zur Russischen und Sowjetischen Geschichte (1917-1991)
100(0) Key Documents on Russian and Soviet History compiles selected Audio-Visual sources. Introductory comments explain the relevance of the source, the current state of scientific research and advice on further reading. The documents can be accessed as full texts and as photocopies of original facsimiles.
http://www.1000dokumente.de/index.html?c=1000_dokumente_ru&l=de
Prozhito
A database of 140,000 digitised Russian diaries from 1700-2000, including many written during the First World War.
Первая мировая война и русская литература, Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The project "The First World War and Russian literature. Politics and poetics: historical and cultural context" is provided by the Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI) (Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and funded by Russian Humanitarian Fund (RGNF). It contains various sources (books and periodicals) as well as proceedings of conferences and colloquia.
"The Russian Revolution of 1917 in literary sources" is a continuation of the project.
Коллекции: Материалы к истории Первой мировой войны, State Historical Public Library of Russia
The collection "Materials on the history of the First World War" contains books and periodicals (more than 450 titles, mostly in Russian) which were digitised by the State Historical Public Library of Russia.
http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/indexes/values/39733
Российская ассоциация историков первой мировой войны 1914-1918
The website of the Russian Association of Historians of the First World War.
Памяти героев Великой Войны 1914-1918, Russian Ministry of Defence
The project "In memory of the heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918" is provided by the Russian Ministry of Defence and supported by the Russian Historical Society and the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarchiv). The database contains more than 2.5 million digitised card files of the Bureau for the calculation of losses at the fronts of the First World War.
События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов, Rosarchiv
Events in the Semirechie in 1916 (revolt of Kazakh tribes during the mobilisation of local people for military works) according to the documents of Russian archives.
http://semirechye.rusarchives.ru/
Георгиевские кавалеры, Великой войны 1914-1918, Rosarchiv
The internet project "St. George's Cavaliers of the Great War" is a database of recipients of the Order of St. George, St. George's Crosses, and St. George's weapon during the First World War.
http://cavalier.rusarchives.ru/
Офицеры Первой мировой - генералы Великой Отечественной, Rosarchiv
The project "The officers of the First World War - Generals of the Great Patriotic War" presents documents on military careers of Russian officers of the First World War who became generals and admirals in the Soviet army during the Second World War.
Russian-German project for the digitization of German documents from the archives of the Russian Federation
Database that includes a "Collection of documents of the special services of Germany in 1912-1945 from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History" as well as a collection of "German documents of the First World War from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation".
History of Russia in photos
More than 100,000 photos from museums and private collections spanning the entire history of photography. The site is result of collaboration of state, non-profit and commercial institutions. It also contains many photographs from WW1 (Eastern front and Russian home front).
The October Revolution and origin of Soviet power, the Russian State Archive of Sound Recordings
The archive contains 54 fragments of recordings of revolutionaries who took part in October events in Petrograd and other Russian cities. They were recorded between the 1920s and 1970s.
The economy of Revolution 1917, Russian State Archive of Economics
A collection of hitherto unpublished digitised documents concerning the economy of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
http://rgae.ru/er.shtml
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
A collection of digitised books and other sources in the electronic Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The collection is devoted to "the main events of 1917" (English interface and description are available).
https://www.prlib.ru/en/collections/467242
Collection of First World War sources: https://www.prlib.ru/en/collections/467020
Collection of Russian Civil War sources: https://www.prlib.ru/en/collections/761615
Documents of the Soviet Age, The Federal Archival Agency of Russia
"Documents of the Soviet Age" includes a collection of digitised "Revolution 1917" documents retrieved from the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
http://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/#!tematicsection§ionId=420645
1917. Free History
The work of a team of journalists, experts, designers, animators and illustrators, “1917. Free History” is a serial, but in the form of a social network. It is a way of bringing the past to life and bringing it closer to the present day. It is a way of understanding what the year 1917 was like for those who lived in Russia and in other countries. The project consists entirely of primary sources.
The Great War 1914-1918. The memory of the Great War in Russian literature, art and intellectual culture, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities devoted to the Great War
The site was financially supported by the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation (project №13-04-00177).
Russian newspapers of the Great War and Civil War 1914-1922
A project digitizing Russian newspapers of the Great War and Civil War 1914-1922. The Project is carried out under the auspices of INION RAS (Institute of Scientific Information for Social Science, Russian Academy of Science) and History of Motherland Foundation.
http://newspapers.historyrussia.org
The First World War in documents of Russian workers of culture
The website was created by the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art with support from the Russian Federal Programme "Culture of Russia 2012-2018". The online archive consists of selected ego-documents of various Russian poets, writers, artists, actors etc.
Information Server, Ungarisches Institut München
This German-language collection of transcripts on East Central and South East Europe includes important documents about the First World War, such as peace treaties and political memos. It was created with the support of the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst.
http://www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de/
Veliki Rat
The project Veliki Rat (the Great War) aims to group together resources related to the Serbian people. It provides access to several collections of First World War materials, such as books, periodicals and images, as well as learning materials for teachers and students.
WWI in collections of the Historical archives of Belgrade
An analytic inventory, a thematic guide, proceedings of documents, nominal and thematic registers and other sections offer access to the First World War archival material of the Belgrade historical archives. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.
http://www.ww1.arhiv-beograda.org/
WW 1 - 100 let prve, Slovenians in the WW1
A website about the involvement and memory of Slovenia in the First World War.
World War One Sites – The Networld Database
World War One Sites contributes to the preservation of architectural and cultural heritage of the First World War in the Danube region. It documents different types of architectural heritages from war monuments and fortifications to POW-camps and museums in nine different countries.
Vojaške žrtve 1. svetovne vojne na Slovenskem (Victims of the First World War in Slovenia), SISTORY - History of Slovenia
The site consists of various local databases and lists of First World War victims from 16 different institutions and individuals to which data from relevant sources were added. It aims to collect and promote resources to further support work and research of the period in the region.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together more than 8 million digitized items from America’s libraries, archives, and museums including around 5,000 items related to the First World War.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalogue Photo Collection, Library of Congress
The Library of Congress’ online collection of photos.
For an overview of the LoC collections on WWI, see “A Guide to World War I Materials” at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html
In particular: World War I Posters, Library of Congress
A collection of approximately 1,900 posters created between 1914 and 1920. The majority of the posters were printed in the United States. Posters from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia are also included.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/
The Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
A project collecting, preserving and making accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans.
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, Library of Congress
The Nation's Forum Collection from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division consists of 59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding WWI and the subsequent presidential election of 1920.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919, Library of Congress
The complete edition of the newspaper, “The Stars and Stripes,” published in France by the United States Army from February 1918 to June 1919. The eight-page weekly featured news, poetry, cartoons and sports coverage.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
National Archives Homepage, US National Archives and Records Administration
A website containing access to some of the US’s important national documents and material.
The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, US National Archives and Records Administration
An online archive of documents and photos showing the course and consequences of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed 50 million people worldwide
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/
Eyewitness, American Originals from the National Archives, US National Archives and Records Administration
A small collection of eyewitness accounts from key events in the past 150 years, including two on WWI.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/
Panoramic Photographs from the National Archives, US National Archives and Records Administration
A small sample of the wide variety of panoramic images in NARA’s still-picture holdings. The exhibit covers the period from 1864 to 1937, but the vast majority of images date from the WWI era.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html
Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
A collection of more than 7.7 million catalogue records with 568,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian’s museums, archives and libraries.
http://collections.si.edu/search/
New York Public Library Digital Gallery, New York Public Library
A collection of more than 700,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
World War I Photograph Albums and Postcards, The New York Public Library Digital Collections
This collection from the New York Public Library consists of four exhibitions titled, Under the Red Cross flag at Home and Abroad: Base Hospital Unit #44 and Evacuation Hospital #5, German World War I Photographs and Postcards, Photographs of World War I Battlefields, Captured German Installations and Allied Installations, and Usines Delahaye; collaboration des femmes a la defense nationale, guerre europeenne.
Campaign Atlas to the Great War, West Point Academy, Department of History
A database of campaign and battle maps from WWI.
http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), University of Minnesota
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.
Military Resources: World War I, US National Archives
A collection of online resources and links to external websites containing photos, background articles, educational resources and biographies relating to primarily American involvement in WWI.
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/ww1.html
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' digital World War I collection
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' World War I Collection Online offers a rich array of primary-source material related to the First World War. The digital collection consists of over 1,100 titles (55,000+ pages), mainly published during the war years, and represents a wide range of formats, genres, geopolitical units, and subject matter.
http://cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/g4l4ln
The National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City
The Online Exhibitions of the National WWI Museum and Memorial provide articles, images and other primary sources on a diverse range of topics on United States First World War history.
https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/online-exhibitions
World War I Collection, University of Wisconsin Libraries
The World War I Collection from the University of Wisconsin Libraries features primary sources. Materials from all fronts in Europe can be found in this collection.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AWWIColl
Online Collections Database, The National WWI Museum and Memorial
The online collections database allows users to search the digital records of the museum’s global collection that began in 1920. With new editions added monthly, this collection has many diverse images and resources.
https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/online-collections-database
American Libraries During World War I, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
This collection consists of materials relating to the role of libraries during the period of American involvement in World War I, from 1917 to 1918.
https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WWILibrary
American War Posters from the First World War, Bancroft Library
168 digitized American posters from World War I, hosted by Bancroft Library.
World War I Sheer Music, Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship
In association with the John Hay Library, Brown University’s collection of World War I sheet music and cover art aims to preserve the many types of popular music in the United States during the First World War.
https://library.brown.edu/cds/sheetmusic/ww1/index.html
Sheet Music Collection, University of Missouri Kansas Digital Special Collections
The University of Missouri-Kansas provides digitized original sheet music from the United States. Sheet music for both World Wars can be found in this collection.
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umkc/islandora/object/umkc:sheetmusic
Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime, University of Wisconsin Libraries
With sources provided by the University of Wisconsin Libraries, the unique “Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime” collection provides books and documents outlining the importance of food and recipes used on the British and American homefronts during the First World War.
