First World War Cemeteries: Insights from Visitor Books

Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books

Museum visitor books, although held by almost all museums, are rarely used as a research source. This article explores their potential to provide insights and information about audience views, experiences and understandings. To do so, it focuses primarily on visitor books at the Documentation Centre of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The article highlights questions a...

Cultures of neurasthenia: from Beard to the first world war

lead-paint in their products, though public health officials, notably in Boston and Baltimore, continued to identify cases in which lead-paint was implicated throughout the 1930s. The problem then largely disappeared from public view until the late 1940s and 1950s when hundreds of children started to appear in urban hospitals with acute plumbism. The trouble, it turned out, was lead-paint flaki...

War Psychiatry | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)

During the First World War soldiers from all combatant nations suffered from a wide range of debilitating nervous complaints as a result of the stresses and strains of modern warfare. War psychiatrists struggled to manage these complaints and shell-shocked men struggled to ensure that they had decent treatment and proper pensions. In each country the politics of shell shock differed but, regard...

What Caused the First World War ?

A pilot in the first world war.