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- [1914-1919] (Creation)
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Appointed at Society of Friends yearly meeting, 1915, to help and advise members who wished to take up special work during war-time; became responsible for organising the Society's resistance against the introduction of conscription, 1916, and for campaigning on behalf of conscientious objectors.
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GB 0099 KCLMA Society of Friends [1914-1919] Collection (Fonds) 2 files, 1 volume Society of Friends
Appointed at Society of Friends yearly meeting, 1915, to help and advise members who wished to take up special work during war-time; became responsible for organising the Society's resistance against the introduction of conscription, 1916, and for campaigning on behalf of conscientious objectors.
Presented to the Centre by Professor Wolf Mendl, Department of War Studies, King's College London, in 1981.
Pacifist publications and publications relating to conscription, [1914-1919], principally comprising leaflets issued by the Society of Friends Service Committee and the Joint Advisory Council of the Society of Friends Service Committee, the No-Conscription Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1916]-1917, 1919; supplement to No-Conscription Fellowship newspaper The Tribunal, Jul 19 1917; 'Military Service Act, 1916 (Session 2)', printed by HMSO, 1916; 'One-man businesses: cases of hardship: co-operation', Local Government Board circular to Military Service Acttribunals, printed by HMSO, 1917. Catalogue of The Garland library of war and peace series, published by Garland Publishing Inc, 1971. Some'frightful' war pictures by William Heath Robinson (Duckworth and Co, London, 1915). 'The Bystander's' fragments from France by Capt BruceBairnsfather, published by The Bystander, [1915-1916].
2 files, 1 volume
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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The Society of Friends retains its own archives
Jul 1997
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Presented to the Centre by Professor Wolf Mendl, Department of War Studies, King's College London, in 1981.
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Pacifist publications and publications relating to conscription, [1914-1919], principally comprising leaflets issued by the Society of Friends Service Committee and the Joint Advisory Council of the Society of Friends Service Committee, the No-Conscription Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1916]-1917, 1919; supplement to No-Conscription Fellowship newspaper The Tribunal, Jul 19 1917; 'Military Service Act, 1916 (Session 2)', printed by HMSO, 1916; 'One-man businesses: cases of hardship: co-operation', Local Government Board circular to Military Service Acttribunals, printed by HMSO, 1917. Catalogue of The Garland library of war and peace series, published by Garland Publishing Inc, 1971. Some'frightful' war pictures by William Heath Robinson (Duckworth and Co, London, 1915). 'The Bystander's' fragments from France by Capt BruceBairnsfather, published by The Bystander, [1915-1916].
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2 files, 1 volume
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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- Latin
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