Pacifism Collection

Front page, Youth Against the Bomb, CND newspaper, with an article about support from Paul McCartney of The Beatles pop group, Easter 1964. 1964

TANKS RECYCLED
German tanks from World War One are scrapped and recycled Date: 1920

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and author (1872-1970), sitting on the pavement with other protesters as part of a CND demonstration in London, under a large banner: Committee of 100

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author -- a large book open at a page of architectural illustrations in the study of his home, Plas Penrhyn, Wales

Members of London Peace Action campaigning against war toys outside a Toy and Hobby Fair at Earls Court, West London, 3 February 1981. Date: 1981

Daily Worker slogan on a wall
Slogan painted on a wall: It stands between You and War, the Daily Worker. Date: circa 1973

Communist Party members voting
Communist Party delegates (including Janey Glen from Yorkshire, centre) voting in London against American bases in Britain for Cruise missiles. Date: 1982

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Bertrand Russell with others on a CND campaign
Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic

Bertrand Russell, British writer, pacifist etc
Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic. Seen here (left)

Ben Rubner, General Secretary of the FTAT union
Ben Rubner (1921-1998), General Secretary of the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT) from 1976 to 1986. He also campaigned against the Vietnam War

Michael Tippett, English composer
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-1998), English composer, humanitarian and pacifist. Date: circa 1960s

Donald Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper (1903-1998), prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist. Date: circa 1980s

Jacquetta Hawkes, Bertrand Russell and Stephen King-Hall
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996), British writer and archaeologist, Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician

Cardinal Basil Hume and Fenner Brockway
Cardinal Basil Hume (George Basil Hume, 1923-1999, standing), English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Westminster from 1976, speaking at Central Hall, Westminster, London

Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi, London, 1931
Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi, London, England, September 22, 1931

Sir Edward George Clarke and Joseph Chamberlain
A Queer C. Sir Edward George Clarke (1841-1931), British Statesman and Lawyer and (in background, shooting) Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914). Date: 1900

CND demonstration in London -- a crowd of people with banners. Date: late 1960s

SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES
Two smiths beat swords into plowshares, which are much more useful Date: circa 1860

ANTI-BOER WAR DEMO
Demonstration against the Boer War in Trafalgar Square, London - but alas, the public and the government are not convinced Date: October 1899

Cartoon, French and German soldiers, WW1
Cartoon, French and German soldiers. A French soldier sticks a bayonet into a German soldier, telling him that he has sung the socialist Internationale for twenty years

Wwi Refugees 1917
A mother and her children, with their meagre possessions wrapped in three bundles, shelter in a ruined building from the battle raging close by. Date: 1917

Mass Resistance
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to participate in its programme of mass resistance against Nuclear weapons Date: 1961 or 1962

Labour would Stop War
The British Labour Party makes Stop War ! a main plank in its platform Date: 1936

2 Minutes Silence
Two minutes silence - before getting on with the next war... Date: 1933

Cartoon, Zimmerwald pacifism, WW1
Cartoon, Zimmerwald pacifism. A man representing the Zimmerwald peace movement offers an olive branch to some French soldiers

Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other, WW1
Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other. A haughty young German soldier and a meek old Frenchman stand together in a room, giving little sense of equality or negotiation. Date: 1916

German postcard, Which is the better way? Join hands across the sea. The choice is between ignorance and goodwill, selfishness and insight, militarism and peace

British Peace Poster, WW1
Labour Fights Wars and then Pays for them -- Disarm! Chromolithograph poster, by Grafton Art Limited, Peace Poster No 2. Date: 1918

Elihu Burritt - 3
ELIHU BURRITT American self-educated blacksmith, champion of pacifism. Depicted studying his Hebrew Bible. Date: 1810 - 1879

Elihu Burritt - 2
ELIHU BURRITT American self-educated blacksmith, champion of pacifism. Date: 1810 - 1879

Elihu Burritt - 1
ELIHU BURRITT American self-educated blacksmith, champion of pacifism. Date: 1810 - 1879

As you sow so shall you reap - possibly a German anti-war postcard; the results of entering into conflict being a floral tribute for a life lost? Date: circa 1910

Mars Tied Down
Mars, God of War, allows the Geneva Peace Conference to tie him down - before he does his celebrated escaping trick, breaking their pathetic strings Date: 1932

Politics / Pacifism
Britains idea of disarmament is to burn some obsolete vessel while building up her modern fleet Date: 1907

Pacifist posters outside St. Georges Church in Bloomsbury, London, during World War II

Poster advertising the Red Cross, with a quotation from the American President Woodrow Wilson, " I summon you to comradeship in the Red Cross."

France Rejects Hoover
The Hoover Plan : The other nations are all prepared to drink Hoovers peace-soup, but France goes into a tantrum and refuses to drink the stuff

Disobedience Forum
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to join Bertrand Russell at a Mass Forum on Civil Disobedience against Nuclear weapons

Quakers and Tsar
On the eve of war in the Crimea, a delegation of Quakers travel to St Petersburg to beg tsar Nicolas I to modify his belligerence : he won t, and war follows

The God of War / 1909
The God of war tells the leaders of Europe not to make so much noise toasting Peace & to let him get on with sharpening his knives

Pacifist Arrested 1909
An anti-militarist agitator (depicted by this rightwing journal as a scruffy ruffian) is arrested by the police, to the approval of patriotic bystanders

Pacifist Coat of Arms
The Royal Arms of Britain, as amended to suit the principles of the Peace Society - a king Charles spaniel and a rabbit replace the lion and the unicorn

Churchs Blessing
The Army prepares to go to war - with the blessing of the Church

Children Fighting
Boys are encouraged to fight warlike games - the priests look on indulgently

Lessons of War
At school, children are taught the glories of victory on the battlefield !

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