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Description: | British civilian student in Scotland, 1914-1915; alternativist conscientious objector working with Fellowship of Reconciliation in UK and in Society of Friends' refugee camps in Netherlands, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Scottish educational background; management of YMCA camp for Black Watch en route overseas, 1914; parents' attitude towards pacifism; family disgrace; justification for Officers' Training Corps participation; expectation that pacifists would be shot.
REEL 2 Continues: amazement at number of pacifists; unemployment due to conscientious objection; student Christian Movement conference 1915 including Richard Roberts and case for pacifism; employment by Fellowship of Reconciliation; practical advice for pacifists.
REEL 3 Continues Fellowship of Reconciliation committee members; memories of Reginald Sorenson; compatibility of socialism and pacifism; confrontation with Lloyd George.
REEL 4 Continues: pacifist principles in daily life; Riverside Colony for delinquents; memories of Russell Hoare; pacifists' role in society; Society of Friends and pacifism; pacifists and war work.
REEL 5 Continues: personal attitude towards pacifism in First and Second World Wars; work of Second World War conscientious objectors; Pacifism, Christ and Christianity; foreign pacifists.
REEL 6 Continues: suspicion of story of death sentence pacifists; lack of general public knowledge about conscientious objectors; church sermons in wartime; militancy of No Conscription Fellowship; memories of Fenner Brockway. | 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 |
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