"Great Peace Meeting 1936 poster" [NMLH.1994.35.1]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.35.1

Object Name
poster

Title
GREAT PEACE MEETING - FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE

Place
Reigate, Surrey

People
International Peace Campaign

Events
Second World War; World Peace Congress

Description
Printed poster for the "Great Peace Meeting" in 1936. It advertises the meeting as being held at Friends' Meeting House, Reigate Road, Reigate, Surrey on Wednesday 23 September. The meeting was organised following the World Peace Congress from 4-6 September 1936, stating "Only mass support can help to make [four points adopted by Congress] living realities in time to stop war."


The International Peace Campaign (IPC), who organised the World Peace Congress, was founded in 1935 in response to fascist Italy's invasion of Abyssinia (the historical name of the Ethiopian Empire, present day Ethiopia and Eritrea). The first Congress was held in Brussels in 1936 with the aim of uniting global peace movements. The IPC dissolved following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

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