Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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...

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.

As the Great War rolled on ES found herself more and more of a pacifist. During her very few holidays from writing and from trying to keep the suffrage cause alive, she took jobs...

IOF helped to form a local branch of the WIL in Leeds, which quickly attracted seventy-five members.

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...

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

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...

UM made a speech on social and political equality in Jamaica at the Women's International League conference on Africa held in London.

With the declaration of war, however, on 4 August, 1914, VW 's politics and those of the NUWSS parted company. The NUWSS supported the government, and on August the sixth resolved to suspend political activity...

In 1917 NM joined the movement to establish a League of Nations . In the twenties she participated in the Women's International League , an organization of feminist outlook which was working to establish such...

EPL , as chairman of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) , organised a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against the continuing blockade of Germany.

She and her husband probably managed to get there because they came by ship from America, not from Britain, whose authorities were blocking all sea travel. Only two other British women were permitted to attend...

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...

Though she had not attended the Women's International Congress because of prohibitions on travel in the North Sea, MR became the vice-president of the Women's International League (WIL) .

The Women's International League headquarters in London suffered damage in an air raid, and at KEI 's invitation was moved to her house, Portway, at St Mary Bourne in Hampshire.