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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian852o.2
title: Sidgwick and Jackson's Poetry List

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. This page shows a selection of other volumes of poetry published by Sidgwick and Jackson.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fxa.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks when her father is coming home / anticipates a visit from a friend / sends love from all of the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pwp.2
title: Autumnal

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 103 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vsw.2
title: Recruiting March of the Oxfordshire Women's Land Army

description: Recruiting march and presentation to Princess Mary of the Women's Land Army, Oxford, 1917-1918. The march begins in St Giles with women entering the enrolment hut by the Martyrs' Memorial. The procession goes down the Cornmarket, through Carfax and into Broad Street. Some of the women are in uniform, and the procession includes a steam tractor. Mr R E Prothero, Minister of Agriculture, leads local city and university officials to Trinity College gardens, where Princess Mary presents awards to the Land Girls. One of the girls shows two baby lambs. The awards continue while the members of the council and the university, one in a Bath chair, watch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wqq.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Albert 1 -13 July: A stretcher case seen in silhouette being brought in from La Boisselle.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zk.2
title: German Casualties During the Action of La Becque, Arrewage, Nord, France, 1918

description: One of the 200 O.R. casualties of the 2nd K.O.S.B. in a captured trench. Note the swarm of flies.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zv7.2
title: La Gorgues

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, including a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianazn.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks when her father is coming home / anticipates a visit from a friend / sends love from all of the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5y9.2
title: Women and the War

description: British propaganda film of the contribution of some women to the war effort, contrasted with the extravagance of others, 1918.  The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that ""luxury shopping"" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two small children while her husband serves in the trenches, munitions workers, nurses at a hospital, drivers and mechanics of the WAAC in France, drivers of military ambulances, and women special constables in Britain. The film ends with the enquiry "CAN YOU HELP "
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddt1.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgm4.2
title: First March

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. The version is confused, particularly line 16, and another typescript exists correcting this version. However, the draft shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandi6g.2
title: Battle of Courcelette

description: Bringing in a wounded Canadian on a truck from the battle.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandm6r.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Battle of Albert. Wounded British soldier being carried from the trenches by German prisoners.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtxm.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxtr.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes receiving presents.  Includes a drawing of a house and countryside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyg.2
title: Letter: Unknown Recipient.

description: Describes a birthday visit to the Empire Theatre.  Includes part of a drawing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2t6.2
title: Sweet is your antique body, not yet young

description: Probaby written in December 1917. This is no. 130 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7x5.2
title: Golden Hair

description: This is no. 125 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj962.2
title: Grand Hotel de l'Univers

description: Occupied by British Press during Battle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhaf.2
title: La Gorgues

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, including  a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjit2.2
title: Letter: Unknown Recipient.

description: Drawing included with letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlyl.2
title: Every Little Helps

description: British propaganda film on food saving and producing activities in Ilford, Essex, 1918. The film stresses the need for part-time work to win the war. A schoolmaster drives a tram. Ladies make bandages, limb supports and other hospital items. Carpenters make crutches. Elderly part-time workers chop wood in a timber yard. Women collect rhubarb for jam. Schoolchildren collect blackberries which are then taken to a factory. Boys in their mid-teens, wearing school uniform, plant cabbages. Boys of the Naval Brigade collect waste food from door to door as pigfood. Food collected by other boys is loaded into sacks for farmers and given to pigs. Lawyers, businessmen, tradesmen and labourers work to clear a waterlogged ditch on a farm on a Saturday afternoon. The film ends with a message, 'You can help. Seek out your local Part-Time Committee and find a job. If you have no such committee, start one. The Ministry of National Service will help you'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn6.2
title: A Day in the Life of a Munitions Worker

description: Manual work done by women at a British munitions factory, spring 1917. The young woman leaves her terraced house (section tinted blue) at 5am and takes the train to the factory (tinting ends). In the locker room she and the others change into overalls and boots, and clock on. She works on finishing 8-inch shells, pouring molten explosive in to top the cases up, capping them using a wheel to clear the screw threads, adding the detonator and stencilling them. A trolley takes another batch away. Other women, wearing masks against the fumes, top up heavier shells. The women are given a brief medical examination on site, lasting no more than a few seconds. In one suspect case a blood sample is taken. The women wear shifts to wash, which is compulsory before meals and on leaving the factory. A final close-up of the young woman, pretty without her mask and almost coy, 'working for victory'. According to an article in the Nottingham Evening Post, Saturday 8 February 2003, the factory shown is the National Shell-Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottingham. It was destroyed in an explosion July 1 1918, with great loss of life. The railway station shown at the beginning is Attenborough station, according to the same source.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjw6x.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand.  Many versions of the poem exist, including a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. That draft was included in included in the Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark editions of Ivor Gurney's works in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney, Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjz6q.2
title: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps During the First World War, France

description: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps operators in a telephone exchange at Le Havre, France, circa 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzod.2
title: War's Embers

description: Rear cover to Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmhs.2
title: Table of Contents

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann4v.2
title: Severn and Somme

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. These pages show Gurney's inscription and a listing of the places most of the poems were written, including France and Belgium, 1916 and 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdqx.2
title: Arras

description: Communication trench running across a street.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrwj.2
title: That Centre of Old

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. A longer version of the poem exists and was published in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantd3.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a picnic / playing with his sisters and friends / wishes his father's knee a swift recovery.  Includes a sketch of the 'scouting game' played at the picnic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiany8e.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian234y.2
title: Topical Budget 194-1, Zeppelin raid results on Southend

description: Newsreel item on the damage done to Southend and Westcliff by the Zeppelin raids of March and April 1915.  A hotel, the "Cromwell Board Residence," has been hit by a bomb. Firemen work to put out the various fires. The burnt-out firebombs are displayed in a heap by a policeman. A charred dead dog is held up for the camera. A man holds his (apparently unharmed) baby daughter up for the camera also. This issue was released by the Topical Film Company before it was taken over by the British government in April 1917. The material may have been re-released as part of a government compilation film at a later date.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24hr.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29dy.2
title: Men of the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers (London Welsh)

description: Filling sandbags with the earth excavated in the construction of a dug-out in their trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f9q.2
title: To England - A Note / Bach and the Sentry

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'To England - A Note' was written at Laventie, and 'Bach and the Sentry', was written at Laventie and Aubers, also inscribed 'E of Laventie'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gld.2
title: Anthem for Doomed Youth

description: This is no. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kwb.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mzp.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes journey with a friend / seeing soldiers in the station / asks after his father's book and travels.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qo6.2
title: First Time In ['After the dread...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft contains an additional three lines. Another poem under the same title beginning 'The Captain addresses us...' also exists.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vaa.2
title: Christmas on the Front

description: Soldier with a Christmas Pudding.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4o1.2
title: Near Vermand ['Lying flat...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This version contains only the first 10 lines, and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973, whereas a longer version, and was included in This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).  From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61cu.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62bq.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66ni.2
title: Behind the Line

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft was published in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1964 and 1973 respectively, as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6av7.2
title: The 2/7th Manchesters

description: Coming down Menin Road from the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6d9p.2
title: The York and Lancaster Regiment During the First World War

description: Men of 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment at a front line Lewis gun post, Cambrin.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dg6.2
title: Maisemore

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that  'Maisemore' was written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6erh.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes snow / upcoming tea.  Includes a drawing of cottages by a lake or seaside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pcl.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes snow / upcoming tea.  Includes a drawing of cottages by a lake or seaside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tm5.2
title: Strange Service / Serenity

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Strange Service' was written at 'Tilleloy' (France) and was written 'on the same day as 'By the Bierside'', and 'Serenity' was written in the 'Trenches'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6u8p.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xhg.2
title: Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82nb.2
title: First Time In

description: Manuscript continuation, in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, of 'First Time In'. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83zt.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bc9.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dbg.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8l8n.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (10)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ov3.2
title: Christmas Mail

description: Artillery Officers with their Christmas mail-bag.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pmm.2
title: Carol / Strange Service

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. With multiple corrections and lines crossed out Gurney notes that 'Carol' was written at Chelmsford and 'Strange Service' was written at 'Tilleloy' (France) and was written 'on the same day as 'By the Bierside''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rc4.2
title: Anthem for Doomed Youth

description: First draft with annotations by Siegfried Sassoon. This is no. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uht.2
title: Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9hk.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3ry.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes journey with a friend / seeing soldiers in the station / asks after his father's book and travels.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhsi.2
title: Gunners of the 51st Division

description: Entering their billet in an overthrown water-tower.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhwe.2
title: 'Also By the Author' / Title page

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlro.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.