This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum professionals and cultural heritage specialists, grapple with the complexities of interpreting and representing the private experience and costs of the war in museums and historical practice.

Introduction: War, Emotion and the Museum; Part I. Emotions in Conflict: On the Battlefield and at Home; 1. Emotions and Memory in the Soundscapes of World War I; 2. Pompey Elliott, Australia’s Emotional General; 3. For the Duration: Surviving World War I at Home; Part II. Bearing the Wounds of War; 4. A Familiar Face: Wartime Facial Wounds and William Kearsey; 5. War Disability and the Centenary of Family Caregiving; Part III. Emotions in Histories of World War I; 6. Searching for Hector Thomson: Telling Difficult Family War Histories; 7. "Gonzo" Historians and the Emotional Turn in Australian Military History; 8. Distance, Intimacy and Identification: Reflections on Writing a History of Trauma; Part IV. World War I in the Museum: Love and Sorrow at Museums Victoria; 9. After One Hundred Years: Exhibiting World War I; 10. "Sticky" Objects, Faces and Voices in the Museum: Love and Sorrow’s use of Affective Interpretation Strategies to Challenge Masculinist Commemorations of World War I; 11. "The Stories are like Magnets": Love and Sorrow and the Engagement of On-Line Learning; Index