Weblinks and videos for use with 6340 - Birdsong A Level Comprehensive Guide (first teaching 2015)
Background on the Text
- Article: Sebastian Faulks' Biography
- Website: Official Sebastian Faulks Website
- Article: The Many Selves of Sebastian
- Article: Sebastian Faulks, 'Devil May Care'
- Guardian Books podcast: Sebastian Faulks on his Novel 'Birdsong'
- Website: Goodreads Entry for 'Birdsong' with Customer Reviews
- Website: Goodreads Debate on 'Birdsong': Is the 70s Plotline a Weakness or a Strength?
- Article: John Mullan Book Review for 'Birdsong'
Sections: A Synopsis
Faulks' Use of Language
Attitudes and Values
- Soldiers Experiences (British Library temporarily unavailable)
- Website: The British Military Open Encyclopedia - ARRSE-Pedia
- Article: Gallows Humour from the Trenches of World War I
- Website: How to Look for Records of British Army Soldiers after 1913
- Article: Remembering the First World War
- Article: Lance Corporal Michael Campbell Died from Wounds Sustained in Afghanistan
Videos
Suggested Answers
- Article: Crow Symbolism and the Crow as a Spirit Animal
- Article: Thirteen Bird Superstitions
- Article: Explore Bird Superstitions and Myths
- Poem: John McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields'
- Article: Lions Led by Donkeys
- Article: Existentialism
- Article: Armed Forces Day 2015 – An Army Veteran’s Story
Videos
Further Reading
- Website: Project Gutenberg
- Article: How to Read a Novel: Some Places to Begin
- Article: The Many Selves of Sebastian
- Website: Sebasian Faulks' Offical Website
- Article: Review of 'Birdsong'
- Website: Official British Army Website
- Website: The British Army YouTube Channel
- Website: The Royal British Legion
- Article: Sebastian Faulks on 'Devil May Care'
- Article: Brave New World and Women's Rights
- Article: Amiens Cathedral
- Article: World War I and Women
- Definition: Napoleonic Code
- Article: 'The Wife is Obliged': The French Civil Code (Napoleonic Code) 1800-1820
- Website: Second Wave Feminism (British Library temporarily unavailable)
- Article: Timeline of the Women's Liberation Movement (British Library temporarily unavailable)
- Articles: Amiens and WWI
- Website: Opening Times and Contact Information for Visiting the Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens (French language)
- Website: Amiens Tourist Information (English near alternative)
- Article: World War I and the Jews
- Article: Great German Patriotism (German language)
- Article: Loyalty, Identity, Betrayal: the German-Jewish soldiers who Fought in WW1 (English near alternative)
- Article: Irish Soldiers in the First World War
- Article: From Godlessness to Ruthlessness?
- Article: The fight to honour Ireland’s heroes of the First World War
- Article: Blackadder on the Causes of the First World War
- Article: The Causes of World War I
- Wikipedia: William Halse Rivers Rivers
- Website: Liberal Welfare Reforms
- Article: Five Things You Need to Know about the First World War
- Article: We Will Remember Them - 8,000 Tickets Available for Public to Commemorate the Battle of the Somme Centenary
- Article: Indian Troops Contribution to First World War Honoured
- Website: Twitter Search for Lancashire WWI
- Website: The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918
- Website: Twitter Search for WWI Hashtag
- Website: Goodreads Book Entry for 'Birdsong'
- Website: Goodreads 'Birdsong' Debate: 'Is the 70s Plotline a Weakness or a Strength?'
- Article: John Mullan's Book Review of 'Birdsong'
- PDF: 'Serve to Lead': Sandhurst's Motto. The Army Leadership 'Bible'
- Poem: Brian Turner's 'Here, Bullet'