A new Oxford online WWI course

[Elsa Franker]

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

[Meg Crane]

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

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[Elsa Franker]

Dear Meg,

It sounds interesting, doesn´t it? We discussed a bit of the factors behind the outbreak of the WWI in the English Poetry of the WWI course, but there is so much more to learn, the scenario is so very intricate before Gavrilo Princip fired his gun.

It feels very tempting to join you here, as this course would be the perfect companion course to the English Poetry one. The course doesn´t start until October 3, so there still is time to decide. As you say, it would indeed be nice if we were several of us to support each other on this course.

Over the last few years, I have done several of these Oxford on-line courses, mainly literature. I have enjoyed them immensely and found them very good value for money indeed: good tutoring, good course material - not least articles and web-links made available to us, - course mates from all over the world, lively forum discussions, and also those extra "off-pist" discussions that crop up, not least getting 10 CATS points for each new course. Also, I still keep in touch with several previous course-mates from all over the world.

I looked up the tutor Mark Philip Radford in the British Library catalogue and found his PhD thesis:

• Title: A trial of strength : the policing of Belfast, 1870-1914 / Mark Philip Radford [electronic resource]
• Author: Mark Philip Radford
• Contributor: University of Liverpool.
• Subjects: Dewey: 363.209416709034
• Publication Details: Liverpool : University of Liverpool, 2002.
  
• Language: English
  
• Identifier: System number 013008440
  
• Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Liverpool, 2002.
  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  
• Physical Description: 1 v. ; 31 cm.
  
• Shelfmark(s): Document Supply SFX 402399
  
• UIN: BLL01013008440

That´s all I managed to found about his academic career, is he now a Lecturer or Professor at Oxford? In vain, I tried to find him on the University of Oxford web-site,  would anyone else be more lucky?

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

[Elsa Franker]

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

[Chris]

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: