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Vera Brittain was a nurse during the First World War, and after the war campaigned for peace women’s rights. She was one of many women who spoke out at this time, and joined the Peace Pledge Union. Other peace organisations included the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.
- Origin of The Petition Idea – 1922
- A ‘Peace of Art’
- The Welsh Peace Declaration
- ‘Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths’ – Chair of The Welsh League of Nations Union
- Mary Ellis
- Elined Prys
- Mrs M.G. (Gladys) Thomas
- Book Club Linking Past, Present and Future
- Digital Resources
Three sources record the origins of the Women’s Peace Petition idea: 1. Annual Reports of the Welsh League of Nations Union(recently digitised by WCIA) 2. a letter of July 3rd 1922from Rev Gwilym Davies, Organiser of the WLNU, to David Davies, WLNU Chairman, proposing the idea; 3. article in the ‘Welsh Outlook’ magazine of November 1923, which reco...
It is thus far unknown whether any particular individual(s) were responsible for composing the written content of the peace declaration itself; although the mediaeval revival illumination and calligraphy were crafted by Cecily West (1897-1977), daughter of artist Joseph Walter Westof Northwood, Middlesex. The Memorial itself – the beautiful leather...
The Declaration contained within the Memorial Petition, recounts the historic ties between Wales and America – and appeals from the women of one proud nation to another, to “hand down to the generations which come after us, the proud heritage of a warless world.” References within the declaration are linked in the text reproduced below. “We, women ...
Regularly appearing in records and correspondence associated with the creation of the petition, Mrs Hughes-Griffiths was the Chair of the Welsh League of Nations Union during the mid-1920s. As was the convention of the 1920s, on official records she is almost always referred to by her husband’s name, Rev Peter Hughes Griffiths(1871-1937), who was a...
Originally from Dolgellau in Gwynedd, Miss Mary Elizabeth Ellis (who appears from photos in Annie’s archives to have been a friend from her student days), was the second woman to have been appointed an Inspector of Schools in Wales, and a leading educationalist. Beyond the Peace Petition, Mary appears in many records of Welsh League of Nations Unio...
Originally from Trebecca, Talgarth in Radnorshire, Miss Elined Prys – better known as Elined Prys Kotschnig (spelling varying between records between Eluned / Elined, Prys / Pryce and some misspellings of Kotschnig) stands out in Annie’s Diary for having got engaged at the tail end of their trip to America… as Annie exclaims, “to an Austrian Count!...
Mrs Thomas (who appears on the left of the Washington image above) was Annie’s travelling companion for the ‘Peace Tour’ of America. After their Washington meeting with President Coolidge, Mary returned to Wales and Elined travelled to Buffalo, reuniting with Annie and Gladys at the end of their trip for the voyage home to Wales. As yet, relatively...
Many thanks to the ‘Transcription Team’/ Book Club participants who volunteered many hours over a short time frame, to transcribe and share Annie’s Diary: 1. Craig Owen, WCIA 2. Ffion Fielding, National Museum of Wales 3. Fi Fenton, National Museum of Wales 4. Martin Pollard, Learned Society of Wales 5. Jane Harries, WCIA Peace Schools Coordinator ...
View the digitised pages of Annie’s Diaryhere (on Flickr – indexed by date)View the draft transcription documenthere (on Google Docs; user guidance outlined on cover sheet).View short film ‘Annie’s Diary: the Story of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition to America’here (and below)Blog article by Ffion Edwards on transcription of Annie’s diaryTower of London, visited by an estimated 80,000 people. The Women’s Peace Petition took centre stage, with the Memorial in a display case accompanied by a panel outlining its story. • View Flickr Album of Women War & Peace Exhibition Launch and Setting up Senedd Exhibition, August 2017. • View Flickr Album of Cardiff Poppies Launch, 7 Aug ...
Women, War and Peace has developed as a central strand of WCIA’s work on Wales’ Peace Heritage; from the impact of WW1 on women and the right to vote, through the 1920s-30s Peace campaigns of the Welsh League of Nations Union, to the post WW2 Human Rights landscape and Cold War campaigning around nuclear weapons…. women have been at the forefront of Wales’ Peace movements, then as now.
Dec 29, 2020 · The participation of three women’s organisations – the National Council of Women [NCW], the National Federation of Women’s Institutes [WI], and the Young Women’s Christian Association [YWCA] – in the interwar peace movement reveals not only their anti-war activism but also calls into question long-held assumptions about what motivates women to engage in peace activism.
- Caitríona Beaumont
- 2020
Jul 15, 2010 · When the War Was Over. : Claire Duchen, Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul 15, 2010 - History - 274 pages. Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, "What happened next?"The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question ...
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On the 5th of April, 2023, a hundred-year-old Peace Petition signed by almost 400,000 Welsh women was returned to Wales, marking the centenary of a women-led, Welsh anti-war effort. New! Welsh Women's Peace Petition website now available. Search 51,000+ of 390,296 women who signed the 1923 Peace Petition. More names will be added over the next ...
