As Anzac Day approaches, we have collected some of our favourite pieces about the Great War from the Oxford Australia blog and around the Press online. You can read about the history of the iconic Anzac biscuit, rediscover soldier slang from First World War or listen to the remarkable story of John Simpson and his donkey.
Remembering Australia in the First World War
- Remembering Anzac Day – how Australia grieved in the early years
- The iconic ANZAC biscuit
- The War with the Ottoman Empire
- The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force – September 1914: Australia’s first ever joint military operation
Stories from the Great War
- The month that changed the world: Sunday, 2 August 1914
- 1914: The opening campaigns
- Memory and the Great War
- Oxford University Press during World War I
Words and language
- World War One: a snapshot in quotes
- Rediscovering words from the Great War
- Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Documenting the language of Australians in the First World War
- Our words remember them: the language of the First World War
- Oxford Word of the Month – November: Snowball March
- Oxford Word of the Month – December: Billzac
- Oxford Word of the Month – April: Big Stoush
Sights and sounds
- The story behind the cover: Furphies and Whizz-bangs
- Soldiers’ experiences of World War I in photographs
- An illustrated history of the First World War
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography podcasts:
- John Simpson Kirkpatrick, war hero at Gallipolli, known as the ‘Man with the Donkey’
- Albert Ball, WW1 airman and VC holder
- The Unknown Warrior, the First World War soldier buried at Westminster
- Edith Cavell, nurse and First World War heroine
Lists and infographics
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