Event    From 1945  To 2005

60 years of peace between Britain and Germany

Categories: Peace

Countries: Germany

Event

"... sixty years of peace between the peoples of Britain and Germany" in 2005, i.e. since the end of WW2.

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60 years of peace between Britain and Germany

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Hanseatic merchants and 60 years of peace

Let's cover the easy bit first: The German at the end translates as “The old ...

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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
W. J. Chamberlain

W. J. Chamberlain

As a member of the No-Conscription Fellowship he was a leading conscientious objector to WW1.

Person, Peace

1 memorial
League of Nations

League of Nations

Founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. At its height, it had 58 member states. Although achieving much in its early years, it was unable to prevent the aggress...

Group, Peace, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Philip Noel-Baker

Philip Noel-Baker

Politician and Nobel prize-winner. Born Philip John Noel-Baker at Woodstock, Brondesbury Park, the son of Joseph Allen Baker. Educated in Britain and America. During his career at Cambridge, he was...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, USA

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

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Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Comedy actor.  Otherwise known as Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam.  Born in Birmingham as Anthony John Hancock. He was a major figure in British television and...

Person, Humour, TV & Radio, Australia

6 memorials
Darcy Braddell

Darcy Braddell

Thomas Arthur Darcy Braddell was an architect, credited with designing these war memorials. Normally the sculptural work would be carried out by another person, a sculptor, but for none of Braddell...

Person, Architecture

2 memorials
Montagu Pyke

Montagu Pyke

In 1908 Pyke converted two shops at 164-166 Edgware Road into a cinema. This was a success and he created more, naming each one the Cinematograph Theatre. By 1910 he had 5 cinemas, each an independ...

Person, Cinema

1 memorial