"War and Youth leaflet" [NMLH.1992.343.5]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.343.5

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
War and Youth By a Mother

People
War Resisters' International (WRI); No More War Movement

Events
First World War; Interwar Period

Date
1930s

Description
Leaflet printed on brown paper titled "War and Youth, By a Mother" which details mothers losing their sons in the 'Great War' (First World War) and uses this as an argument to be actively anti-war and anti-conscription. It was produced by War Resisters' International (WRI). The British Section was named the No More War Movement during the 1930s.


Founded in the Netherlands in 1921, War Resisters International (WRI) is a global pacifist and antimilitarist organisation working in 40 countries to campaign against wars and promote and educate on nonviolence.

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