A time machine · 1914 – 1918
The Great War, in the words and maps of the people who lived it.
A searchable archive of 47,000 First World War letters and diaries, with a day-by-day front-line map and analysis of the full corpus.
47,329
Letters & diaries
25,643,153
Words written
1,622
Correspondents
137,371
Places mentioned
The Western Front
The Front, Day by Day
The Western Front for any date from 1914 to 1918, with the order of battle, battles, letters, and newspaper front pages of that day.
The correspondence
Letters & Diaries
47,000 First World War letters and diary entries, filterable by nation, date, correspondent, and type, and readable in full.
Corpus analysis
Insights
Analysis across the full corpus: front-line momentum, distinctive language, a topic map, and per-writer sentiment over time.
