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The following item shows a pictorial comic, featuring two men standing in the foreground, while the background features a green wall with a black door in it. On the wall, a sign reads, "Bones Broken While You Wait." One man uses crutches, while the…

The Hydra was launched in April 1917 and stopped publication in 1918, serving as a hospital magazine for the soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital. Wilfred Owen served as one of its editors, while Siegfried Sassoon's poems "Break of Day" and "Base…

Wilfred Owen’s poem portrays two speakers meeting in “some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined” (2-3). This granite tunnel is the aftermath of titanic wars, an image which reflects afterlife as…

In this speech, given in front of the Royal Society of Medicine, Rivers explains the process of being shell-shocked as repression, a means of obscuring mental content from memory and rendering memory inaccessible. However, when trauma was…

Published in 1918, Marieken de Bruin: Somewhere in Belgium by Martha Trent is part of the Somewhere series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of a…

Published in 1918, Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy by Martha Trent is part of the Somewhere series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. Cloth. Illustrated.
From the dustcover: "Around a…

Sublished in 1918, Alice Blythe: Somewhere in England by Martha Trent is part of the "Somewhere in War" series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of…