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:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. The British Library is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*Not currently available online: ''History of the First World War'' published by Purnell c 1969-1970 (editor Barrie Pitt) also known as ''Purnell’s History of the First World War''. Published as a series of 128 weekly magazines, with 8 volume binders, and available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009938748. Also appears to have been reprinted in 8 Volumes 1970-71 (example [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uQQMAQAAIAAJ Volume 8] Google Books snippet).:''20th Century'' published by Purnell Reference Books, twenty volumes in total. 1979 revised editions of ''Purnell's History of the 20th Century'', ten volumes in total, published 1971.: WW1 period: [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury04milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.4],[https://archive.org/details/20thcentury05milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.5][https://archive.org/details/20thcentury06milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.6]. Postwar:[https://archive.org/details/20thcentury07milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.7],[https://archive.org/details/20thcentury08milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.8], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury09milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.9], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury10milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.10], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury11milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.11], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury12milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.12] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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