Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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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...
politics Virginia Woolf
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...
politics Una Marson
UM made a speech on social and political equality in Jamaica at the Women's International League conference on Africa held in London.
The Women's International League was at this time chaired by Kathleen Innes .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
72
politics Naomi Mitchison
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...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
325
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
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...

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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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