Digital copies of The Hydra, magazine of Craiglockhart, the Edinburgh hospital where WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met
The Hydra was a journal written by patients at Craiglockhart, a World War I hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The hospital was for both officers and enlisted men suffering from “shell-shock” — what we’d now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder — with a variety of causes and symptoms. Patients included poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The institution […]