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HI folks the server that hosts the site completely died including the Hdd's and backups.
Luckily i create an offsite backup once a week! this has now been restored so we have lost a few days posts.
im still fixing things at the moment so bear with me and im still working on all images 90% are fine the others im working on now
we are now using a backup solution
found this site https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ mentioned on the who do you think you are website. it mentions it being a new site.hope people interested in ww1 may find it interesting.
I think this site has been running for 18 months/two years or so, an Oxford University project. There is a wealth of stuff in it and it's a good site for browsing.
A great mutimedia site - with great poetry, photos, audio and video - that I had not come across before, so thank you for sharing it. Some strange ommissions such as W.B. Yeats' "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" of 1918 which I have always found particularly moving - It was read in a well-judged but abridged version in the film "Memphis Bell): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_PvCToBCRc
I hope it gets extended to WWII. My favourite of that period would be Henry Reed's (born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward VI School, Aston, followed by the University of Birmingham) Lessons of The War, better known as "Naming of Parts" (a personal favourite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QW4LFzQrZ8
Poetry is not much mentioned these days but sometimes it really captures the zeitgeist as much if not more than other media.
Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria