Fenner Brockway

Standard Name: Brockway, Fenner

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ethel Mannin
EM entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray , Louis Marlow , Ralph Straus , Norman Haire , Fenner Brockway , and...
politics Eva Gore-Booth
Gore-Booth and Roper described themselves as extreme pacifists.
qtd. in
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
163
Their work for the No-Conscription Fellowship (which was founded in early 1915 following a letter written by Fenner Brockway in November 1914) included travelling the...
Textual Production Katharine Bruce Glasier
At first she took over the editorship only temporarily from Fenner Brockway , but this became permanent when he was court-martialled and imprisoned at the end of 1916. On his release, Brockway had expected to...

Timeline

November 1914: At Lilla Brockway's suggestion, her husband,...

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November 1914

At Lilla Brockway 's suggestion, her husband, Fenner Brockway , wrote a letter that he printed in the Labour Leader calling for all war-resisters to contact him; the No-Conscription Fellowship was established by early 1915.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
42-3

1938: The No-Conscription League was formed by...

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1938

The No-Conscription League was formed by former members of the No-Conscription Fellowship (founded by the efforts of Lilla and Fenner Brockway ) when the Peace Pledge Union refused to lobby against conscription.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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