Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL firmly believed that the Treaty of Versailles was doing more harm than good to Europe's attempts to recover from war. Her foresight as to its effects comes over strongly in her autobiography, published in...
politics Vera Brittain
She and Holtby attended a number of League of Nations Assemblies, including the one held in August 1926 at Geneva in Switzerland, when Germany was accepted into the League. After 1923 these trips were...
politics Vera Brittain
VB had supported a number of pacifist groups in the early 1930s, including the National Peace Council , the Union of Democratic Control , and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
251
politics Kathleen E. Innes
KEI , attending the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Congress in Luxembourg, was appointed a WILPF Vice-President, in recognition of work done over twenty-eight years.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
149, 255
politics Pearl S. Buck
Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press.
185-6
As an anti-ideologue, she had the experience in the 1950s of being stigmatized as...
politics Maude Royden
Through her anti-war activities, MR became involved with the Women's International League (WIL) , a pacifist organisation founded by British women who had attended the Women's International Congress in Amsterdam in 1915. Back in England...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
Along with several retiring members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , IOF joined the the newly-formed British Women's International League for Peace and Freedom , who were committed to advocating negotiated peace...
politics Kathleen E. Innes
Although KEI resigned as WIL office secretary on her marriage, her feminist peace activism increased rather than diminished, and George was extremely supportive of her work.
politics Evelyn Sharp
As the Great War rolled on ES found herself more and more of a pacifist.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
157
During her very few holidays from writing and from trying to keep the suffrage cause alive, she took jobs...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF helped to form a local branch of the WIL in Leeds, which quickly attracted seventy-five members.
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
174
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
Both the Women's Peace Crusade and the Women's International League distributed leaflets, organized marches, and gave speeches on the subject of peace negotiation, even as the war raged into its fourth year. When the armistice...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace , which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
After the war, IOF increasingly turned her attention towards the promotion of peace and international co-operation through her involvement with the Women's International League as an executive member, and as the secretary of her local...
Occupation Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen Royds (later Innes) moved to London to become office secretary of the Women's International League , British Section.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
67, 246
Occupation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL became the treasurer of the newly-established British branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) . She held this position until 1922.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
315-16
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...

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Saturday 19 June 1926

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.

July 1952: The Women's International League Monthly...

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July 1952

The Women's International League Monthly News Sheet, the official organ of the Women's International League , British Section, ended publication.

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