Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Elsa

 

On your Ieper visit, did you by any chance visit the IRISH FARM military cemetery?

 

And did you go and see the POOL OF PEACE (Spanbroekmolen lake) in Wytschaete-Messines? The 'Pool' is one of the scars in the landscape of  WWI. It is a remainder (and likewise a reminder) of the British all-out attack of early June 7th, 1917, when around 20 massive underground mines were detonated along the Ypres Salient; this happened with a view to blowing the German army off the fortified belt of strongholds, which they held on the crests of the Salient. 

 

The unique thing about Wytschaete-Messines was that Regiments from both sides of the Ulster-Irish border (the 16th and the 36th) were involved in the attack. Unfortunately for most of these forces, the whistle that gave the sign for jumping out of the trenches was blown a few seconds before the mine was detonated and most soldiers were blasted to smithereens and pulverized.

That is why the LONE TREE cemetery, which is on the opposite side of the road (near some farmer's meadow actually), contains mostly 'SOLDIER(S) OF THE GREAT WAR (known unto God)'.    

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2012 08:43:10 UTC+2 schreef Elsa het volgende:

Dear Meg,

Did you have the chance of enrolling on the new WWI course? When I checked it out yesterday, I found that the course already was fully booked, and the next time for it is Hilary term 2012 - Mon 28 Jan to Fri 12 April 2012.

It feels very tempting, doesn´t it? Would be nice having course-mates from this group.

I have enrolled on the Modern Irish Literature course, and Ireland, too, was very much involved in the WWI. When I visited Ieper, we also looked Irish war graves around the town. It´s the architect Lasdun who has designed the grave monuments, if I remember it rightly.

It would be surprising if the WWI wouldn´t be at all mentioned during the course. I will inform you when it happens.

Best

Elsa

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From: Meg Crane <megm...@gmail.com>
To: ww1...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 0:17
Subject: Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Elsa

 

Thank you for drawing our attention to this. It's not expensive as they go, and  I'm extremely tempted - I just wonder whether I've really got ten hours a week to spare, since I'm still teaching full-time  ....

 

It would be terrific if more than one of us did it, so that we could support one another ....

 

Does anyone know more about Dr Mark Philip Radford, who seems to be the tutor?

 

Meg

On 8 July 2012 08:36, Elsa Franker <elsaf...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Dear all,

Next term, Michaelmas 2012, Oxford will be doing a new course on the WWI, the web-link is:

http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=V100-129&Category=100

and the course is called:

The First World War in Perspective (Online), Wed 3 Oct to Fri 14 Dec 2012 and it gives 10 CATS points.

The course looks interesting, and I think it would be an excellent companion course to the English Poetry of the First World War course. 

It doesn´t say who is going to tutor the course, does anyone know who will be taking on his course?

Best wishes

Elsa

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