50 years after the end of WW2
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
50 years of peace
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50 years of peace
The two seated allies are unidentified at the site but with the assistance of...
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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...
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 ...
Winifred Holtby
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.
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
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...
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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...
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...
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