Bequeathed to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ by our alumnus R. W. Seton-Watson (1879–1951), the Seton-Watson Collection at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford is rich in German materials of great interest to researchers, Austria-Hungary being a particular strength.  The collection contains a wide variety of both primary and secondary source materials, ranging across rare newspapers, books, and pamphlets.

Gyula Andrássy, Wer hat den Krieg verbrochen? (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1915)
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, SWP45

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

Members of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ will have seen and been struck by one of the smaller, but most arresting, fixtures in the chapel: the memorial to three German undergraduates who died in the First World War. Beyond the usual power of any war memorial, especially one so simply and beautifully designed, this tablet is especially evocative in its willingness to commemorate men on the opposite side of such an acrimonious pan-European conflict.

Monument to the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ German War Dead, in the Ante-Chapel of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ continued to pay wages of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ servants on active service during the Great War. 

Mrs Louisa Cox received the regular wages of her husband George, who had worked as a bed-maker at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ since 1887 before enlisting for four years’ war service in 1914.

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford