A Publisher in Wartime, Part Four: Staff at Oxford University Press on active service
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
In the fourth of a series of videos exploring the impact of the First World War on the press and its people, archivist Martin Maw discusses the diverse experiences of OUP staff on active service. He describes the ‘roles of honour’ that staff performed, from helping to print the Treaty of Versailles in Paris to amputating limbs on the Western Front. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/academic/history/military/ww1.do
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