Ann Kennedy Smith

Una Marson broadcasting to British troops in the West Indies from a London theatre, February 1942.

‘Manless Climbing’

Breaking into the masculine public sphere of the interwar years.

Photograph of the matron and staff of the Lady Chichester Hospital for the Treatment of Early Mental Disorders, Hove, 1921. East Sussex Record Office.

The Lessons of Shell Shock

The global crisis wrought by the First World War prompted the birth of free mental health care for the treatment of shell shock and ‘war neuroses’.