On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

Craiglockhart Hospital treated many patients for shell shock during the World War One. The best known were the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The poets became famous for the poems that ...

Transatlantic Shell Shock examines the private and public opinions about shell shock in the United States and the United Kingdom post-World War I. Men and women fought to come to terms with their ...

She worked with soldiers who’d suffered shell shock through battle stress. ‘Symptoms included tremors, loss of sight or hearing and extreme fatigue. ‘Other WW1 mementos include necklaces ...