cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1qq.2
title: Hidden Tales / Solace of Men

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another draft of 'Hidden Tales'. Alternative manuscript drafts of 'Hidden Tales' and 'Solace of Men' can be found in the small green manuscript notebook 64.6. 'Solace of Men' was also included in a letter of early September 1918 to Marion Scott, and Hidden Tales was sent to John Haines in a letter received 11 September 1918. Both were included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21u4.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for a letter / informs her that he has been called up and will be gazetted at Norwich / thinking of her starting at Oxford / wishes her to write.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian239m.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (5)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25gl.2
title: Beauty

description: Probably written in September 1917. This is no. 97 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian284d.2
title: A points-woman uses her right arm to signal to an oncoming engine from her position beside the tracks
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28pl.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2df6.2
title: A woman war worker carries a hundredweight sack of coal,  London 1918

description: At Old Kent Road, London
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ghg.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes finding the first of Roland Leighton's men to be killed / fears that it is cruel to tell this to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mjx.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nuz.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rs1.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (2)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yqx.2
title: Hidden Tales

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another draft of the poem can be found in the small green manuscript notebook 64.6. It was also sent to John Haines in a letter received 11 September 1918.  The version shown here was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918. The facing page contains some notes on a progression of musical keys.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4j.2
title: Women war machinists engaged in making artillery shells at Woolwich Arsenal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61gr.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes finding the first of Roland Leighton's men to be killed / fears that it is cruel to tell this to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63p8.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (21)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65ej.2
title: Satan Above the Battle

description: Poem 'Satan Above the Battle' within letter from Marion Scott which discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67zr.2
title: Schoolmistress

description: Probably written at Scarborough, but possibly at Ripon. This is no. 143 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fxn.2
title: Women war workers operate copper turning machines at  Woolwich Arsenal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6s4y.2
title: From the Window/Girls Song

description: Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The poem was sent to John Haines in a letter received 11 September 1918. The right hand page contains an early draft of what was initially titled 'Girls Song' but which was later renamed 'The Tryst'. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uec.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (8)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83mu.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for a letter / informs her that he has been called up and will be gazetted at Norwich / thinking of her starting at Oxford / wishes her to write.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8feh.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8g45.2
title: Mangle-Hoeing [Interval] / From the Window

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of 'Mangle-Hoeing' [later titled 'Interval'], here dated 'St Albans / August 1918'. This poem was included in a letter of 27th August to Marion Scott.  'From the Window' was included in a letter to John Haines received 11 September 1918.  Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kxc.2
title: Women war workers stack shell cases in the Woolwich Arsenal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lde.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (7)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rgk.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes finding the first of Roland Leighton's men to be killed / fears that it is cruel to tell this to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tzk.2
title: Schoolmistress

description: Probably written at Scarborough, but possibly at Ripon. This is no. 143 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianajq.2
title: Afterwards

description: Poem 'Afterwards' in a letter to Marion Scott for a letter which discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2mp.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7hw.2
title: From My Diary, July 1914

description: Actually written in October-November 1917 at Scarborough or in November 1917-January 1918 at Craiglockhart. This is no. 117 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandawd.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes going for a walk to keep warm / occurances of 'trench foot' amongst the men / losing the ability to admire sunsets / going around the trenches with the C. O. / leave and the strangeness of returning to England after the experience of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiande57.2
title: In a Ward

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand, dated July 1918. Gurney made a copy of this draft in another notebook which he dated 'Warrington July' and revised the final two lines. Published in 'The Spectator' on 11th July 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands62.2
title: Notes

description: Manuscript notes, in pencil, in Ivor Gurney's hand. These pages show the inside cover and notes. From a navy blue notebook used at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandutb.2
title: Women war workers gauge the thickness of the heads of shells at Woolwich Arsenal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandx1w.2
title: In Flanders by F.W. Harvey.

description: Poem, F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders', in letter to Marion Scott, which discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandx84.2
title: Female bricklayers at work on a building site in Lancashire
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzks.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (3)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfg9.2
title: Beauty

description: Probably written in September 1917. This is no. 97 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6mz.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjchv.2
title: From My Diary, July 1914

description: Actually written in October-November 1917 at Scarborough or in November 1917-January 1918 at Craiglockhart. This is no. 117 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgkb.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (4)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianji1v.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk8n.2
title: Mangel Hoeing [Interval]

description: Manuscript in pencil with corrections in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem later titled 'Interval'. Another manuscript draft, under this later title, was included in a letter of 27th August to Marion Scott'. However, it was sent to John Haines under the first title in a letter received 11 September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjm33.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes going for a walk to keep warm / occurances of 'trench foot' amongst the men / losing the ability to admire sunsets / going around the trenches with the C. O. / leave and the strangeness of returning to England after the experience of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn6e.2
title: 'Poor men'

description: Manuscript pencil draft of an unpublished poem. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo6g.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: Probably written at Scarborough and begins with the line 'Earth's wheels run oiled with blood'.  Later incorporated into 'Strange Meeting'. This is no. 131 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsf.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (1)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxti.2
title: Women war workers operate an annealing machine at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2f8.2
title: Woman war worker, her face blackened with grime stands in front of the furnaces. London 1918

description: At Old Kent Road, London
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrema.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes going for a walk to keep warm / occurances of 'trench foot' amongst the men / losing the ability to admire sunsets / going around the trenches with the C. O. / leave and the strangeness of returning to England after the experience of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansup.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv9x.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (6)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzht.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes finding the first of Roland Leighton's men to be killed / fears that it is cruel to tell this to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian246o.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (10)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25my.2
title: Photograph of William George Dugdall and others (1)

description: Photograph of William George Dugdall of the Royal Navy, Victualling Officer on board HMS Hannibal, shown with several other men. Inscribed on the back: "1st World War on board HMS Hannibal. My father Wm Geo Dugdall (Vitalling [sic] Officer) second row centre. In Mediterranean." Part of a collection relating to William Dugdall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bez.2
title: The Farm / Ypres - Minsterworth

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Drafts of the opening of 'The Farm' (left hand page) and the third stanza of 'Ypres-Minsterworth'. The poems were later published in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2eof.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2i7b.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2klu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Tells Marion Scott to sign regarding 'Severn and Somme' on his behalf / glad of her new 'exalted company' in dealing with Sidgwick and Jackson / discusses possible omissions from the volume / thanks her for work / Chopin / the news in 'Le Matin' / listening to the guns / includes 'Rumours of Wars', dating the poem to 'July 1917'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l36.2
title: Women driver and conductor on board their tram, somewhere in Scotland
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nfk.2
title: Two women working in an asbestos factory. The large balloon-like sacks are part of the dust abstractor
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s2x.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (6)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian31v.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Regrets having to break off writing letters on the previous day to spend some time with some staff officers / being very tired / describes supervising the building of dugouts / state of the trenches after a shelling / a skeleton / the costliness of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian531.2
title: Women war workers making gas masks
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62qt.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (12)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64v1.2
title: On Rest

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'On Rest'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67ad.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (16)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69pk.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6h9j.2
title: Triolet

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of an unpublished poem titled elsewhere in the notebook 'Triolet'.  The right hand page contains what appears to be a three part musical exercise. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6otg.2
title: A woman war worker forms oil cake before placing it into a press at an oil works in Lancashire
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6p51.2
title: Questions and Answers

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yie.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (8)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zwj.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81i2.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (7)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian869h.2
title: Unknown

description: Unknown verses by an unknown author in an unknown hand. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.