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50 years of peace

Categories: Peace

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50 years after the end of WW2

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50 years of peace

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50 years of peace

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Pierre Cérésole

Pierre Cérésole

Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...

Person, Engineering, Peace, Switzerland

1 memorial
Agnes Maude Royden

Agnes Maude Royden

Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Religion

1 memorial
Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.

Person, Literature, Peace

1 memorial
Fenner Brockway

Fenner Brockway

Pacifist, Labour MP, life peer, CND founder, free-thinker, campaigner for peace and racial equality. President of Liberation. Born Calcutta. Died Watford General Hospital, Hertfordshire. Until at l...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Peace, Politics & Administration, India

3 memorials
Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes

Social worker.  Born 80 Park Street, Mayfair, daughter to the Christian socialist Thomas Hughes who was author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays".  Moved to join her sister who was married to the Reverend...

Person, Peace, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Emma Biggs

Emma Biggs

Founder of Mosaic Workshop.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Jenny von Westphalen

Jenny von Westphalen

Wife of Karl Marx.  Born Germany.  Childhood friend of Marx, they married in 1843 and eventually had 7 children of which three survived to adulthood, including Eleanor and Jenny Caroline, the mothe...

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset

Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset

Brother of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, he was honoured by the king on the marriage and remained in favour after Jane's death, following childbirth.  On Henry's death, the king's only son...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lydia Sinnock
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial