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Author: dan_tierney

Ali Cottally

Ali Cottally first got involved in women's peace activism when she joined the Sellafield Women's Peace Camp in 1993. The camp aimed to draw attention to the link between nuclear power and the military use...

Our Flight to England by Irma Daems

Irma Daems was a Belgian girl who fled her home city of Antwerp when it came under bombardment in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. ...

Canteen at the National Projectile Factory
Munitions factories in Lancaster and Morecambe

Women played an important role on the home front in World War 1. They took on jobs traditionally held by men so that the men could join the armed forces. An increased demand for munitions...

The Women’s Peace Crusade in the North West

There had been opposition to the First World War, both before its outbreak and during. But from 1916, and particularly after the Somme, until Armistice in 1918, a Women’s Peace Crusade movement spread across the...

Catherine Marshall at suffrage demonstration
Catherine Marshall (1880-1961): Suffragist

Catherine Marshall became prominent in suffragist and peace activism, significant national movements in the last century. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) was established at the end of the 19th century with branches...

Belgian Refugees
Belgian Refugees in Lancaster in World War 1

During World War 1, Belgian refugees came to Britain to escape the conflict at home. One of the refugees was called Irma Daems, who came from Antwerp and attended Lancaster Girls' Grammar School. In this...