# The First World War: 100th Anniversary Lectures

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Christopher Clark, Professor David Stevenson, Professor David Reynolds FBA, Professor Sir Richard Evans, Professor Mark Harrison
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Society and politics, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that brought war to Europe in the summer of 1914; reflects on some of the problems of interpretation that have dogged the debate over the war's origins; and considers the contemporary resonance of a catastrophe that is now nearly a century old.

## Lectures

1. [Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures/9bd576411051) (YouTube)
2. [The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures/078473722bad) (YouTube)
3. [The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures/7084d6335b80) (YouTube)
4. [Politics and the First World War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures/1d9f9cacf378) (YouTube)
5. [War, Health and Medicine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-first-world-war-100th-anniversary-lectures/b4d8f7bd515f) (YouTube)