Women's Cooperative Guild

This year the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) participated in the Peace Letter Pledge, the Peace meeting at the Albert Hall, and the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (of 19 June).

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) began raising money and collecting clothes in aid of the wives and children of striking miners.

About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.

Margaret Llewelyn Davies edited a collection of reminiscences about the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) entitled Life as We Have Known It.

The Women's Co-operative Guild instituted the sale and wearing of white poppies for Remembrance Day, often alongside the red poppies sold by the British Legion .

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) passed a resolution calling for the legalisation of abortion, becoming the first woman's organisation to pass such a resolution.

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) passed a resolution calling for the legalisation of abortion, becoming the first woman's organisation to pass such a resolution.