archiveworld war one

Thousands of wills from serving World War One servicemen have gone online for the first time on the Irish National Archives' website.

At the start of the month we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu about the organisations forthcoming World War One digitisation roadshow in Germany.

As the Europeana digitisation roadshow starts in Germany this week we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu, formally of the British Library, about how social media, crowdsourcing, and wiki-principles are preserving European history and bringing academia and the public closer together.

Europeana (@EuropeanaEU), a Europe-wide digital archive consisting of over 1,500 museums, galleries, and institutions has launched a multinational drive to digitise pictures, memorabilia, letters, notes and other family heirlooms before they decay and are lost forever.