cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcbo.2
title: Peace

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The draft on the left hand page is part of Song at Morning; the right hand page contains a poem later titled 'Peace', sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 6 June 1917 (published Collected Letters, p.270). From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianji61.2
title: The Menin Gate: The Last Post

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlle.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjytr.1
title: Out-of-Work Donation Policy

description: Documents sent to David Jones detailing his rights under a claim for out-of-work donations for individuals discharged from His Majesty's forces.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzwv.2
title: The Battle of the Somme  1 July-18 November 1916

description: The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 -22 September: A long line of British reserve troops standing silhouetted against the dawn near Thiepval.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianm7q.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Royal Field Artillerymen in bivouac.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiano4b.2
title: Sedge-Warblers

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Sedge Warblers (cancelled version)' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianorw.2
title: Spring.  Rouen, 1917.

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianq7.2
title: Cambrai Cathedral

description: A Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Cambrai. Badly damaged during World War One during the Battle of Cambrai.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansa2.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxkp.2
title: Tonight

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Tonight' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyow.1
title: From the Wars, 917 / 1917

description: One of a pair of drawings done by David Jones for the Divisional Magazine, New Year 1918. This one (917) is of a warrior leaving his girl to return to the fighting, (in contrast to the 1917 version of a similar scene).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3969931
title: The error in Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction under diversification dynamics with simultaneous speciation events

description: Dataset for 'The error in Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction under diversification dynamics with simultaneous speciation events', by Laudanno, Bilderbeek & Etienne
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22fx.2
title: How strange it was to hear/April Anthem

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft is a continuation of an unpublished poem which begins 'How strange it was to hear under the guns', from the preceding page.  Part of the right hand page appears under the title 'April Anthem 'in the Black Seaton Delaval notebook, beginning at 'Now God, who stirs the resurrection'. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23b7.2
title: Sunrise

description: Drafted in France in early May 1917, revised January-February 1918. This is no. 140 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24fp.2
title: Sonatas in Silence

description: Notes on book materials, font, and spacing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2a4i.2
title: Sedge-Warblers

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Sedge Warblers (cancelled version)' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ets.2
title: Camps

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gpe.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem entitled 'Laventie' with substantial differences was prepared for publication by Edmund Blunden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kfn.2
title: Pilkem Ridge: Crossroads looking towards Boezinge

description: A plaque to the memory of the poet Hedd Wyn is located further along this road from Boezinge to Langemark, just after Pilkem at a cross roads on a building opposite De Sportman bar. Ellis Humphrey Evans (bardic name Hedd Wyn) served as a Private in the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The memorial plaque records that he was mortally wounded near-by on the 31st of July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oru.2
title: Exploding Shell

description: Shell bursting amongst the barbed wire entanglements on the battlefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s3g.2
title: Myfanwy

description: One of two versions, this poems is part of a series of four (106-109) titled 'Household Poems', intended by Edward Thomas to presented together.  Written well convalescing in Steep.  Myfanwy Thomas, born in 1910 is the daughter of Edward and Helen Thomas. The manuscript is untitled but is labeled '[3 Myfanwy]' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zaq.2
title: Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps tending British war graves at Abbeville
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62nh.2
title: Sunrise

description: Drafted in France in early May 1917, revised January-February 1918. This is no. 140 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64yh.2
title: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: A column of the newly formed WAACs marching in Rouen
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian685e.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Cameron Highlanders in a communications trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bny.2
title: This is the constellaton of the lyre.

description: Poem written in a album and then detached and mounted on a scrap of paper.  Not included in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f8m.2
title: Strafe / 'To think that Belgium'

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a Rondel titled Strafe - a poem titled 'Strafe 2' when sent to Marion Scott on 11 June 1917, and on the right hand page a draft of an unpublished poem. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k1m.2
title: First Time In ['After the dread...']

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, with particular alterations to line 13 and the final three lines. A further version exists, beginning with the line 'The Captain addresses us...'. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nj1.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Three officers of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment and a war correspondent, Basil Clark, play records in the comfortable surroundings of a captured German dugout.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pk4.2
title: Poppies at Essex Farm Cemetery

description: It was in this vicinity that John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qi4.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rc2.2
title: Members of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) boarding Air Force tenders to go to their billets in Cologne

description: The WRAF were based in Cologne as part of the occupying forces.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uhf.2
title: It was the noiseless hour: tremoulous wood

description: This is no. 77 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84iz.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89yy.2
title: NCOs of the Gordon Highlanders divide up rations in a reserve position near Tilloy-les-Mofflaines during May 1917

description: The Battle of Arras 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bkz.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: Concrete bunkers

description: Restored and recently re-opened Allied bunkers next to the canal by Essex Farm Cemetery, the site of an advanced dressing station. These date from circa September 1916. It was in this immediate vicinity on 2nd or 3rd May 1915 that the Canadian major (later lieutenant colonel) and doctor John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'. He was working in this medical aid station where he cared for the wounded from the 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, which was lined up on top of the Canal Bank. He also looked after many casualties who were brought from the battlefields near St Julien during the heavy fighting after the gas attack of 22nd April 1915. The Essex Farm Cemetery also came into being in those days. From September 1916, numerous reinforced dugouts were built in the left and right banks of the canal by the Royal Engineers of the 38th (Welsh) Division. On account of the incessant firing from the bridges across the canal and from the Canal Bank, constant repairs had to be carried out. More and more concrete was used to do this work. During preparation for the major offensive in the summer of 1917, various advanced dressing stations, such as Dulhallows, Talana Farm, and Essex Farm, were built at the bottom of the West Side of the Canal Bank. From here, the wounded were evacuated by motorised ambulances to the Main Dressing Stations, Casualty Clearing Stations, and Base Hospitals behind the front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dny.2
title: When on the kindling wood the coals are piled

description: This is no. 76 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8e52.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: An Artillery Observation post in a shell hole near the front line.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h1x.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem entitled 'Laventie' with substantial differences was prepared for publication by Edmund Blunden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jcr.2
title: A Portuguese gas sentry standing by SOS rockets used in the case of gas attacks, Neuve Chapelle
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k8x.2
title: blank pages

description: Blank pages from a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kmk.2
title: Bronwen

description: This poem is part of a series of four (106-109) titled 'Household Poems', intended by Edward Thomas to be presented together.  Written well convalescing in Steep.  Bronwen Thomas (1902-1975) is the daughter of Edward and Helen Thomas.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled '[1 Bronwen] in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lha.2
title: It was the noiseless hour: tremoulous wood

description: This is no. 77 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qn5.2
title: Letter: To Eleanor Farjeon.

description: Discusses pooling resources with the men / life outdoors at the Observation Post / death in shelling of a Sergeant Major/ the experience of being shelled / having found an American publisher for his verse / the office in his cottage / having received Eleanor Farjeon's letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sjf.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The Battle of Ancre Heights 10 -11 November. The Battle of the Ancre: The remains of the village of Beaumont Hamel after its capture.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9fn.2
title: Hide ah! my Flower, hide close: for now the noon

description: This is no. 80 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1i7.2
title: Australian Troops

description: Marching to the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6sh.2
title: Boezinge town memorial
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8jh.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandc9l.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: Thomas Barratt VC

description: The cemetery frequently came under enemy shellfire. Bodies were exhumed by the blasts. The canal is behind the bank running parallel to the graves."
Here is one Victoria Cross burial, Private Thomas Barratt VC of the South Staffordshire regiment, who lies with three other men of his regiment killed on or about the same day (27th July 1917)" His passing was commemorated with plaques in his home town, and at the canteen at his place of work, and dedications provided by the officers and men of his regiment, as well as a memorial service. An extract from The London Gazette, dated 4th September 1917, records the following:, includes "On 27 July 1917 north of Ypres, Belgium, Private Barratt, as a scout to a patrol, worked his way towards the enemy under continuous fire from hostile snipers, which he stalked and killed. Later his patrol was similarly held up and again he disposed of the snipers. When a party of the enemy were endeavouring to outflank the patrol on their withdrawal, Private Barratt volunteered to cover the withdrawal which he did, his accurate shooting causing many casualties and preventing the enemy advance. After safely regaining our lines this gallant soldier was killed by a shell."(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barratt).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfq.2
title: Camps / 'If we must die for England'

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The left hand page contains the draft of what was probably a seventh verse to Camps.  The right hand page, although titled 'Strafe' contains an unrelated, unpublished poem.  From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgn5.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: Concrete bunkers

description: Restored and recently re-opened Allied bunkers next to the canal by Essex Farm Cemetery, the site of an advanced dressing station. These date from circa September 1916. It was in this immediate vicinity on 2nd or 3rd May 1915 that the Canadian major (later lieutenant colonel) and doctor John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'. He was working in this medical aid station where he cared for the wounded from the 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, which was lined up on top of the Canal Bank. He also looked after many casualties who were brought from the battlefields near St Julien during the heavy fighting after the gas attack of 22nd April 1915. The Essex Farm Cemetery also came into being in those days. From September 1916, numerous reinforced dugouts were built in the left and right banks of the canal by the Royal Engineers of the 38th (Welsh) Division. On account of the incessant firing from the bridges across the canal and from the Canal Bank, constant repairs had to be carried out. More and more concrete was used to do this work. During preparation for the major offensive in the summer of 1917, various advanced dressing stations, such as Dulhallows, Talana Farm, and Essex Farm, were built at the bottom of the West Side of the Canal Bank. From here, the wounded were evacuated by motorised ambulances to the Main Dressing Stations, Casualty Clearing Stations, and Base Hospitals behind the front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjfc.2
title: Letter: To Eleanor Farjeon.

description: Discusses pooling resources with the men / life outdoors at the Observation Post / death in shelling of a Sergeant Major/ the experience of being shelled / having found an American publisher for his verse / the office in his cottage / having received Eleanor Farjeon's letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtbd.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The man on the left has been extricated from the mud into which he has sunk up to the arm pits.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduff.2
title: I have loved children

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of an unpublished poem. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandv26.2
title: Letter: To Eleanor Farjeon.

description: Discusses pooling resources with the men / life outdoors at the Observation Post / death in shelling of a Sergeant Major/ the experience of being shelled / having found an American publisher for his verse / the office in his cottage / having received Eleanor Farjeon's letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiang3t.2
title: Myfanwy

description: One of two versions, this poems is part of a series of four (106-109) titled 'Household Poems', intended by Edward Thomas to presented together.  Written well convalescing in Steep.  Myfanwy Thomas, born in 1910 is the daughter of Edward and Helen Thomas.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled '[3 Myfanwy]' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhfc.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: Road to the front lines

description: Road leading nearly due West towards the front lines. To left is a memorial plaque featuring John McCrae's poem 'In Flander's Fields'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianiag.2
title: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps: Two WAACs tending fat boilers situated out of doors in an infantry camp at Rouen
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj328.2
title: Sedge-Warblers

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Sedge-Warblers (revised version)' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj77o.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Typescript with pen alterations in unknown hand prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7z3.2
title: Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century

description: Gas alarm in trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdsp.2
title: Men of the Gordon Highlanders resting at Tilloy-les-Moflains on their way to the front in 1917

description: The Battle of Arras 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgm2.2
title: Hide ah! my Flower, hide close: for now the noon

description: This is no. 80 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhsj.2
title: Site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line

description: Taken from the site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line,  initially known as the ""Hindenburg Support Line"" looking south, just outside Joncourt.  The valley  is the location where Owen advanced with the 2nd Manchesters at 8.30am on 29th September 1918 and won his Military Cross decoration.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjine.2
title: Four rondels

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of four short poems/rondels: 'It seems incredible...' (unpublished); Strafe (sent as 'Strafe 1' to Marion Scott, 11 June 1917); 'If beauty were a mortal thing' (unpublished); Grub (later titled Paean when sent to Marion Scott). From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjjj.2
title: Strange Hells

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjrfn.2
title: Letter: To Eleanor Farjeon.

description: Discusses pooling resources with the men / life outdoors at the Observation Post / death in shelling of a Sergeant Major/ the experience of being shelled / having found an American publisher for his verse / the office in his cottage / having received Eleanor Farjeon's letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt9w.2
title: Five drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in their issued fur coats at Calais
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjw9o.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: 49th West Riding Division memorial
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxf1.2
title: 'To think that Belgium'

description: Draft continuation in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of an unpublished poem. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyis.2
title: Livens Bomb

description: The bursting of a Livens bomb at the objective. It will be noticed that a dense cloud is formed. A slight idea may be gathered of the concentration of gas developed in an enemy's position.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8tb.2
title: Camps / Question and Answer

description: The right hand page contains a draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of Question and Answer, a poem sent to Marion Scott on 27 July 1917. The left hand page contains a draft of the end of 'Camps', published in War's Embers (1919).  From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvb3.2
title: My Shy Hand

description: Drafted in August 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in January-February 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 136 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwsn.2
title: Two FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) cooks outside their hut with piled up trays of food at Calais
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyr4.2
title: Dump of 15-inch howitzer shells.

description: Close-up of shells, showing written inscriptions: 'RMA' and 'Guarantee for peace'.