Interview with Angie Zelter – Dismantling Weapons of Mass Destruction
Interview with Angie Zelter founder of Trident Ploughshares and co-founder of the International Woman's Peace Service....
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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...
Muriel Dowbiggin: World War 1 Lancaster Peace Activist
Muriel Dowbiggin left her mark on Lancaster’s civic life through her long service as a City Councillor and Mayor and as a peace activist and campaigner for women’s rights. She also left a strong impression...
Caroline Marshall (1853-1927)
Caroline Marshall is not as well-known as her daughter, Catherine Marshall, a prominent suffragist and pacifist. Yet Caroline was an active suffragist, who founded the Keswick branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies...
The Women’s Peace Movement in the Years after the First World War
The women's peace movement was at its strongest in the years following the First World War. Building on their experience of working for peace before and during the war, the 1920s saw a period of...
North West Women Speaking for Peace
From 1916 until the end of the war a growing group of women, many of whom had been active in the suffrage movement, began to promote peace through the Independent Labour Party (ILP). They travelled...
Trident Ploughshares
On the 25th January 2000 the trial of Rosie James and Rachel Wenham began in the court at Lancaster Castle. They faced charges of £1m worth of damage to the Trident nuclear submarine Vengeance...
The Trial of the George Fox Six
Linda Mary-Smalley describes how the treatment of six activists at Lancaster University - dubbed in the press as the George Fox 6 - became a land mark event in both the criminalisation of dissent and...