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Conscientious objection in the First World War, 1914 - 1923, 1959

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 1/2

Scope and Contents

Includes: notes for a speech on "Democrats and Diplomats", 1915; cuttings of articles by AFB; AFB's court summons, 1916; press cutting on his third court martial trial at Chester Castle [1916]; typed copy of the prison newspaper [from Walton Prison, Liverpool, edited by AFB], 'The Walton Leader' and a small booklet about Conscientious Objector prison newspapers, "The C.O. Clink Chronicle"; flyer for the Resist the War Committee; open letter from AFB to the German Socialists with a covering letter from Philip Snowden [Chairman of the Independent Labour Party], 1918, saying that it was out of the question to get a letter through to Germany; letters between AFB and [Reginald] Clifford Allen [Chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship] on the open letter, AFB's imminent arrest and the importance of his work editing the Labour Leader; letter from AFB's fellow-prisoner at Lincoln, Míceál Ó Lónáin, 1919, enclosing a cutting of his article "The Friend I Never Saw" with translation, from the Dublin paper "The Voice of Labour".

Also includes: ILP Summer school list for 1923; letter from the executor of Albert Einstein's estate, 1959, on the publication of an interview Einstein gave AFB in c 1920, relating to conscientious objection.

Dates

  • Creation: 1914 - 1923
  • Creation: 1959

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box 1 #13

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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