|
Date: |
|
Description: | British civilian publisher and absolutist conscientious objector imprisoned in Hounslow Barracks, London, 1917; includes reminiscences from his wife Alix
REEL 1 Aspects of political and moral beliefs as civilian living in GB, 1887-1914: attitude towards Boer War; activities of Guild of the Pope's Peace; Catholicism and war; memories of George Lansbury; origins of Pelican Press. Recollections of period as conscientious objector in GB, 1914-1917 including hunger strike in Hounslow Barrackes, 1917: chairmanship of London branch of No Conscription Fellowship; resignation over personal hunger strike.
REEL 2 Continues: political basis for anti-war position; poverty in GB; family's attitude towards pacifist position; letter from mother, Alice Meynell; Clifford Allen and Meynell's hunger strike; reasons for success of strike.
REEL 3 Continues: Suffragettes and hunger striking. Planning hunger strike. Smuggling writing supplies into prison in Bible. First wife, Vera Meynell's support. Mental state during hunger strike. Public attitude towards First World War.
REEL 4 Continues: experiences in Hounslow Barracks guardroom; physical condition during hunger strike; passing time and accelerating inevitable collapse; planning 'Daily Herald'.
REEL 5 Continues: Army and No Conscription Fellowship attitudes towards hunger strike; Alix Meynell's recollections about First World War; her conflict with mother over Edith Cavell.
REEL 6 Continues: Francis Meynell: justifications for personal hunger strike decision; pre-First World War anti-Suffragette meeting; hope in socialist revolution by persuasion. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
IWM interview
British civilian absolutist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian absolutist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian alternativist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian alternativist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian absolutist conscientious objector…
-
-
IWM interview
British civilian absolutist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian alternativist conscientious objector…
-
IWM interview
British civilian absolutist conscientious objector…
-
|