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Reports of the Conscientious Objector Information Bureau
The NCF, together with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Friends' Service Committee created the Joint Administrative Council (JAC) to co-ordinate their work the better to promote the anti-war campaign...
Date:1916-1919Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-05
NCF publications
Throughout the war and in the early years of peace after 1918, the NCF kept up a constant stream of leaflets, pamphlets and more substantial work. These are all represented...
Date:1914-1919Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-06
Thomas Ellison scrapbook
Originally discovered in the Leigh Meeting House of the Society of Friends, this fascinating collection of CO ephemera and personal writing was deposited at the Working Class Movement Library in...
Date:1916-1919Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-07
UDC minutes
U DDC/1/1: Minute book of General Council with some secretary's reports, constitutions, accounts and minutes of annual general meetings, 17 Nov 1914 - 8 Mar 1919. U DDC/1/2: Minute book...
Date:1914-1938Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-01
Papers of E D Morel
One of the most influential campaigning journalists of his generation, Edmund Dene Morel first established himself in 1906 with a shocking exposure of the atrocities committed by the Belgian authorities...
Date:1910-1935Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-02
UDC books
U DDC/5/1: Democracy and Diplomacy by Arthur Ponsonby, 1915, 198pp. U DDC/5/2: The ABC of the UDC by B N Langdon-Davies, c.1916, 72pp.U DDC/5/5: The Future of Constantinople by Leonard...
Date:1915-1918Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-03
The UDC
The monthly journal of the Union of Democratic Control, The U.D.C. began publication in November 1915 and was published consistently throughout the war. The issues collected here cover the period...
Date:1915-1919Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-04
UDC pamphlets (U DDC/5/85 - 145)
U DDC/5/85 'Why should Democracy control Foreign Policy', 20th century; U DDC/5/86 'Why you should join the Union of Democratic Control', 20th century; U DDC/5/87 'What is the Balance of...
Date:1914-1919Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-05
UDC pamphlets (U DDC/5/146 - 172)
U DDC/5/146 'A League of Nations', by J.A. Hobson (x2), c1915; U DDC/5/148 'Labour and the Costs of War', by J.A. Hobson (x2), Jan 1916; U DDC/5/150 'The Peace Debate...
Date:1914-1924Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006b-06
National Committee papers
It's annual conference of 'convention' was a central part of the NCF's organisation. Its November 1915 conference established its broad principles and the conference report, reproduced here, contains first reliable...
Date:1916-1920Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-01
Willesden branch
The Willesden branch of the NCF served an area of North London which was, arguably, one of the anti-war movement's most militant centres. It had at least 145 COs of...
Date:1916-1919Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006a-02
Hyde branch
The NCF local branches were the heart of the anti-war movement. There anti-war activists drawn from a variety of political backgrounds made common cause in opposing the war and supporting...
Date:1916-1920Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-03
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