Consensus and dissent in war time Leeds, 1914-1918: a case study of two Leeds City Council members According to a local Leeds newspaper, by mid-1916 the total number of conscientious objectors (COs, that is men who had applied for exemption to the Military Service Act under the conscience clause) in...
In what appears to be the most unlikely coincidence the Imperial War Museum has chosen (Monday 12th May) to announce the launch of its ‘Lives of the First World War’ digital platform in the same week as the celebration of the International Conscientious Objector Day, the 15th May. The...
1. Women’s Organisations and Female activists: Aftermaths of War network project. There is a school of thought that suggests that women are innately peace-loving and fundamentally opposed to war because of their role as nurturers and care-givers. We might therefore expect women as a group to resist war and protest...