Conscription collection
TitleConscription collection
ReferenceSUBJ/CONSCRIPTION
Date
1918-2021
Production date 1918 - 2021
Scope and ContentPeople folder:
Photocopy of an autograph book containing messages from WW1 conscientious objectors
Statement of AW Evans regarding conscientious objection to military service under the Military Service Act 1916 (ACC302)
Notes from a talk about Albert Evans given in Autumn 2016 at the Working Class Movement Library, by his nephew Malcolm Pittock [see also Digital recording]
The story of Frank Elder, conscientious objector (published in North West Labour History journal no 18)
Biographical and other information about James Hindle Hudson
Photocopies of papers relating to Frank Blood's application for conscientious objector status in World War Two
Photocopies of papers relating to John Bloom's application for conscientions objector status (1952)
Postcard of Edward (Ted) Basnett
Photocopy of a letter from Mark Collins to Eric [Crompton] (29 Jan 1918)
Play - The trials of Ernest Everett
Prisoners for peace: an account by Fred J Murfin of his experiences as a conscientious objector during the 1914-18 war (part two) (ACC302)
Articles/Talks folder:
Typewritten article entitled A Conscientious Objector in the First World War, by Beryl Clark - about William Chadwick
Notes from a talk about opposition to the war by Socialists in Bolton by Barry Mills
Photocopy of an article entitled Who speaks for the Christians?: the great war and conscientious objection in the churches of Christ - a view from the Wigan Coalfield by Peter Ackers (Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, Vol 5 No 3, Oct 1993)
The rebellion of the 'basement lecturers': the Wandsworth Prison disturbances of 1918-19 (Prison Service Journal, No 249, May 2020)
Other papers folder:
No Conscription League circular re: Home Front magazine (15 Dec 1939)
Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors circular re: special conference to be held on 23 Aug 1942
Press release - Campaigners call for convictions of WW1 conscentious objector family to be quashed (2 Mar 2017)
Copy of questions issued by central tribunal. 1916. Application on grounds of conscientious objection (no date)
Paper about conscription (no date)
Poem - White Plume (Thoughts of a conscientious objector) by Tom Walsh (no date)
Papers relating to the Sorby Research Institute
CD containing documents from Liverpool Quakers relating to World War One, including national and local documents
Print out of a photograph a group of people outside Walton Prison, Liverpool reading out the names of conscientious objectors imprisoned there - to mark the centenary of conscription
Manifesto to all trade unionists of the Rank and File Council against conscription of the licensed vehicle workers
No Power on Earth: conscientious objectors in Salford - WCML learning resource
Leaflets
Digital recording: Albert Evans, Bolton WW1 conscientious objector - Invisible Histories talk by Malcolm Pittock (23 Nov 2016)
Online talks: Conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Cyril Pearce (4 Nov 2020); It is our duty clamourously and unceasingly to agitate - Invisible Histories talk by Alison Ronan (3 Mar 2021); A socialist witness for peace: Fenner Brockway's conscientious objection during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Hazel Kent (12 May 2021); The rebellion of the "basement lecturers": the Wandsworth Prison disturbances of 1918-19 - Invisible Histories talk by Steve Illingworth (2 Jun 2021)
Photocopy of an autograph book containing messages from WW1 conscientious objectors
Statement of AW Evans regarding conscientious objection to military service under the Military Service Act 1916 (ACC302)
Notes from a talk about Albert Evans given in Autumn 2016 at the Working Class Movement Library, by his nephew Malcolm Pittock [see also Digital recording]
The story of Frank Elder, conscientious objector (published in North West Labour History journal no 18)
Biographical and other information about James Hindle Hudson
Photocopies of papers relating to Frank Blood's application for conscientious objector status in World War Two
Photocopies of papers relating to John Bloom's application for conscientions objector status (1952)
Postcard of Edward (Ted) Basnett
Photocopy of a letter from Mark Collins to Eric [Crompton] (29 Jan 1918)
Play - The trials of Ernest Everett
Prisoners for peace: an account by Fred J Murfin of his experiences as a conscientious objector during the 1914-18 war (part two) (ACC302)
Articles/Talks folder:
Typewritten article entitled A Conscientious Objector in the First World War, by Beryl Clark - about William Chadwick
Notes from a talk about opposition to the war by Socialists in Bolton by Barry Mills
Photocopy of an article entitled Who speaks for the Christians?: the great war and conscientious objection in the churches of Christ - a view from the Wigan Coalfield by Peter Ackers (Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, Vol 5 No 3, Oct 1993)
The rebellion of the 'basement lecturers': the Wandsworth Prison disturbances of 1918-19 (Prison Service Journal, No 249, May 2020)
Other papers folder:
No Conscription League circular re: Home Front magazine (15 Dec 1939)
Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors circular re: special conference to be held on 23 Aug 1942
Press release - Campaigners call for convictions of WW1 conscentious objector family to be quashed (2 Mar 2017)
Copy of questions issued by central tribunal. 1916. Application on grounds of conscientious objection (no date)
Paper about conscription (no date)
Poem - White Plume (Thoughts of a conscientious objector) by Tom Walsh (no date)
Papers relating to the Sorby Research Institute
CD containing documents from Liverpool Quakers relating to World War One, including national and local documents
Print out of a photograph a group of people outside Walton Prison, Liverpool reading out the names of conscientious objectors imprisoned there - to mark the centenary of conscription
Manifesto to all trade unionists of the Rank and File Council against conscription of the licensed vehicle workers
No Power on Earth: conscientious objectors in Salford - WCML learning resource
Leaflets
Digital recording: Albert Evans, Bolton WW1 conscientious objector - Invisible Histories talk by Malcolm Pittock (23 Nov 2016)
Online talks: Conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Cyril Pearce (4 Nov 2020); It is our duty clamourously and unceasingly to agitate - Invisible Histories talk by Alison Ronan (3 Mar 2021); A socialist witness for peace: Fenner Brockway's conscientious objection during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Hazel Kent (12 May 2021); The rebellion of the "basement lecturers": the Wandsworth Prison disturbances of 1918-19 - Invisible Histories talk by Steve Illingworth (2 Jun 2021)
Extent1 box and 5 digital recordings
Physical descriptionRecording duration: 1 hr; 1 hr 18 min; 46 min; 1 hr 9 min; 54 min
LanguageEnglish
Related object
Persons keywordEvans, Albert, Elder, Frank, Chadwick, William (1892-1950), Sorby Research Institute, Basnett, Ted, Hudson, James Hindle, Blood, Frank, Society of Friends (Liverpool), Bloom, John, Collins, Mark, Crompton, Eric, No Conscription League, Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors, Wheeldon, Alice, Everett, Ernest, Murfin, Fred J, Pearce, Cyril, Skinner, J Allen, Skinner, Phillis, Ronan, Alison, Brockway, Fenner, Kent, Hazel, Illingworth, Steve, HM Prison Wandsworth
SubjectMilitary conscription, Conscientious objectors, Prisoners and prisons, World War One (1914-1918), World War Two (1939-1945)
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfonds
Normal locationAG Conscription Box 2 (Room 36) and Digital Resource