We’ve made an important new addition to this website today: our collaborative bibliography is now available once more. This was a feature of our old website, but it needed some extra technical wizardry to make it appear on this new site.
The bibliography is a team effort led by Franziska Heimburger. It uses the Zotero open-source bibliography program to gather references relevant to the First World War. At the moment it has 4,813 references organised into 88 categories, and it is updated on an almost daily basis.
It draws upon the knowledge and work of a team of generous members of the International Society for First World War Studies. A core team of Franziska, Pierre Purseigle, Maria Ines Tato, Felicita Ratti and Victor Demiaux do most of the regular work to add new references. Anne Samson, Stephan Lehnstaedt, the IrelandWW1 project, Matthias Egger, and Manon Pignot have all provided further assistance.
This is a great new addition to the site, and we hope it will bring lots more visitors here. In a little over two months, we’ve had more than 3,000 unique visitors from 83 different countries. The top ten cities where visitors to our site have been resident (not including those whose location is unknown) are: London, Canberra, Hull, Paris, Dublin, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, Milan and Vienna.
For those of you wondering about Hull ranking so highly amongst all those capital cities, well, that’s where the site’s web designer and I live. Looks like we’ve visited it quite a lot …