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 ...

A piece of artillery more than 100 years old was uncovered in Massachusetts and was detonated for safety. Someone cleaning a ...

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 ...

Sassoon was surrounded by men suffering from the condition called Shell Shock. This War of endless artillery bombardment wasn’t only killing and maiming soldiers, it was sending them mad.

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 ...