'The object of the "Tribunal"', wrote editor, Will Chamberlain, upon its first publication on 8 March 1916, 'will be to acquaint our members and the general public with those facts...

Date:1916-1920
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-04
United Kingdom 1910s Clifford Allen Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism Socialist Anti-War Movement Local Tribunals Court Martial Joan Beauchamp Bernard Boothroyd Fenner Brockway Will Chamberlain Bertrand Russell Print Media

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:1916-1920
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-03
United Kingdom 1910s Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism England Socialist Anti-War Movement Local Tribunals Arthur Mallalieu Edward 'Ted' Ridgeway Wilfred Stafford Ernest Charlesworth Ernest Faulkner Alfred Schoolden Bartle Wilde Hubert Wilde Court Martial Greater Manchester COs Flyers Posters Print Media Pamphlets Programmes Minutes Reports Correspondence

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:1916-1919
Contributor:Hull University Archives
Identifier:73006a-02
United Kingdom 1910s Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism England Fred J Ballard William Barker Thomas Bazeley George C Bolam Arthur E Burberry R W Chittam Kennard Coysh Sydney Coysh R H Creasey James Darling Norman R Elliott Fred D Fitzgerald Stanley M Fulford George Gascoyne William (Billy) Giles Charles W Gooding Gilbert Hanson George W Henry Harry J Hovell Ronald Kent Charles Littlefield Harry Milson Jack J W Morsman W Penn Arthur Phillips F W Pope Harold B Pratt Frank Pringle Sydney Reed Harry S Sampson A Sawyer A S Simpson C W Spiller Revd. F George Stevens Harry C Stevens E J Watson George F Webb Will Welbank Fred Wheeler Edward Whitehouse W A Willington George Wilson L Sidney Woodruff Socialist Anti-War Movement Local Tribunals Court London COs Correspondence

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:1916-1920
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-01
United Kingdom 1910s Clifford Allen Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism Alternativism Flyers Posters Print Media Pamphlets Programmes Minutes Reports Correspondence

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:1916-1919
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-07
United Kingdom 1910s Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism Socialist Anti-War Movement Thomas Ellison Flyers Posters Print Media Pamphlets Programmes Minutes Reports Correspondence

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:1914-1919
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-06
United Kingdom 1910s Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism Socialist Anti-War Movement Bertrand Russell Print Media Books

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:1916-1919
Contributor:Working Class Movement Library
Identifier:73006a-05
United Kingdom 1910s Anti-War Movement Conscientious Objection Absolutism Socialist Anti-War Movement Local Tribunals Court Martial Philip Snowden Ted Harvey Catherine Marshall Print Media Reports Correspondence