Rare manuscripts by war poet Edmund Blunden are being published online by Oxford University.

The Edmund Blunden Collection, which is launched tomorrow, contains previously unseen material assembled from archives in the UK and the US, including his family's private collection.

The collection, part of Oxford University's First World War Poetry Digital Archive, contains extracts from the writer's Minute Book, a private scrapbook he put together after the war.

Previously unpublished poems and letters sent home to his family while he was on active service have also been included on the website...