"Armistice Night Miss Vera Brittain poster" [NMLH.1994.35.2]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.35.2

Object Name
poster

Title
Armistice Night. Miss Vera Brittain will speak on "The League: what of the future?"

Place
Redhill, Surrey

People
League of Nations Union; Brittain, Vera

Events
First World War; Armistice

Date
1920s

Description
Printed poster on blue card for "Armistice Night" with Vera Brittain, held in Redhill, Surrey on 11 November. It appears to have been organised by the League of Nations Union, printed at the bottom of the page.


Vera Brittain served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse during the First World War who rose to fame through her journalism, autobiographies and novels. During the early 1920s, she was a regular speaker at League of Nations Union events, giving her support to the idea of collective security - agreements between nations that should one nation be invaded, all collective states will work together to repel the invasion - which was intended to work as a deterrent. However later in her life, Brittain became a pacifist and wrote for Peace News on demilitarisation and nuclear disarmament.

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