| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/20/8 |
| Title | 'War and Peace' |
| Date | 1935 - 1945 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), Nan McMillan (NUWT) and other NUWT members including Miss S Wainwright, the Geneva Research Centre, the Friends of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the British Youth Peace Assembly, the Abyssinia Association, Sylvia Pankhurst, the Board of Trade and the Parliamentary Pacifist Group regarding a variety of issues around the subjects of peace, the effects of war and disarmament.
The correspondence covers:
NUWT Resolution outlining their criticism and opposition to defence proposals in a Government White Paper
Request from Syvlia Pankhurst, under auspices of the Princess Tsahai Memorial Hospital Fund, for a full list of Women's societies for a conference she is organising
Notices of a 'Women's Conference' organised by the Princess Tsahai Memorial Hospital Council
Information on the Princess Tsahai Hospital Fund
Information on, and invitation to, a conference on Ethiopia
Italian invasion of Abyssinia - various papers including 'New Times and Ethiopia News', 30/05/1936
Requests for NUWT support for peace demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns
News of Hendon Peace Council demonstration
Newsletters and information from the Geneva Research Council
Requests for NUWT support and signatories for campaigns calling for peace and disarmament
News of a Peace Camp organised by the Student Sub-Committee of the British Youth Peace Assembly
NUWT Resolution urging the Government to initiate a World Peace Conference, 1938 and notes of acknowledgement from Member's of Parliament
Information on peace conferences and demonstrations
Army and Air Force expansion
NUWT calls for occupational clothing coupons for teacher in infant schools
Transcript of the Archbishop of York's address, announced on the BBC, 1935
Official publications:
Various Ministry of Education Circulars regarding clothes rationing and the needs for specialist clothing for teachers and school nurses
'Statement relating to Defence', presented by the Prime Minister to Parliament, 1936
Press cuttings regarding:
The Church and peace - pronouncements by church officials on the Christian view of possible war, 1935
Reports of ill treatment of 'friendly aliens' in Britain
'New Times & Ethiopia News', 30/05/1936
Report of meeting of the World Unity Movement
Report of the resignation of Dame Margery Corbett Ashby following the release of the Government White Paper on armaments
Recruitment to the army and navy amongst school boys - arguments for and against this and reports of protests against this by teachers
Clothes rationing - different rates of grants for school uniforms for boys and girls
School uniforms |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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