Jehovah's Witness meeting

2pm, Saturday 4 September 2010
at the Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH

Contact: 01524 509000 or www.thestorey.co.uk

Stand Up and Be Counted – those who dared not to fight in World War One

Cyril Pearce will give an overview of COs in WW1 Britain including his conclusions from studying conscientious objectors, largely Socialists, initially in Huddersfield.  Also how he has widened his search creating the CO Database to map 1914-18 war resistance and the implications of his work for other groups with an interest in the subject, including the International Bible Students Association.  Cyril will include a recent discovery (the ‘Chichester Autograph Book’) which brings to life the history of IBSA COs.

The Western Front Association Yorkshire (West Riding) Branch

1.30pm, Saturday 2 October 2010
at the Kippax Ex-Services Club, Church Lane, Kippax, Leeds LS25 7HF

Contact: Mavis Sellars 01132 645 579 or http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-current-events/details/1113-communities-of-resistance.html

Communities of Resistance

Huddersfield author Cyril Pearce talks about anti-war sentiment in Britain during 1914-18 with particular reference to the West Riding.

Cyril Pearce is the author of Comrades in Conscience: The story of an English community’s opposition to the Great War

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