Pacifist 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

Conscientious Objectors, World War I
Conscientious Objectors doing hard labour, breaking rocks in prison during World War I

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

BERTHA FELICE SOPHIE VON SUTTNER, nee Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau Austrian novelist and pacifist Date: 1843 - 1914

LEAGUE OF NATIONS / 1929
The 10th meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva. Briand makes his pacifist speech. Date: 1929

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

Conscientious objector cartoon, WWI
Out of the frying pan - pathetic plight of unconscientious conscientious objector who learns in the Press that he may be put on to minesweeping

Millican Dalton looking toward Derwentwater from Borrowdale
Derwentwater from High Lodore, Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. This card features Millican Dalton (1867-1947), famous outdoors man

Christian Louis Lange
CHRISTIAN LOUIS LANGE Norwegian pacifist

Kh Branting / Fantasio
KARL HJALMAR BRANTING (1860 - 1925), Swedish statesman and pacifist, satirised for his socialist principles Date: 1918

Economist and Pacifist Norman Angell
Norman Angell (1872 1967), English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Date: circa 1920s

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

The Persuading of the Pacifist, by W. Heath Robinson
The Persuading of the Pacifist -Even more unpleasant than swallowing his own words A William Heath Robinson cartoon depicting a falling bomb landing directly in the mouth of a speech-making pacifist

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

Vera Brittain by Madame Yevonde
Vera Mary Brittain (1893-1970) by Madame Yevonde. She was a writer, journalist, pacifist, speaker and lecturer, best known for her memories of the First World War, Testament of Youth

Noah Worcester
NOAH WORCESTER American theologian and pacifist with his autograph Date: 1758 - 1837

Jean Comte De Sellon
JEAN-JACQUES, comte de SELLON Swiss pacifist Date: 1782 - 1839

Henry Richard
HENRY RICHARD statesman of pacifist views Date: 1812 - 1888

George Lansbury Photo
GEORGE LANSBURY Statesman, reformer, pacifist. Date: 1859 - 1940

Jaures Photo
JEAN-JOSEPH-MARIE-AUGUSTE JAURES : French socialist statesman, shot by Vilain for his pacifist views, perceived as disloyalty in 1914, when this photo was made. Date: 1859 - 1914

William Thomas Stead (1849 - 1912). British journalist. He died on the RMS Titanic

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

Klas Pontus Arnoldson
KLAS PONTUS ARNOLDSON Swedish writer, politician and pacifist

Kh Branting / Nobel 1921
KARL HJALMAR BRANTING Swedish statesman and pacifist

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

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