Record Details

CollectionNo More War Movement
NGOPeace Pledge Union
RepositoryReligious Society of Friends Library
Description

The records of the No More War Movement are made up of the following: TEMP MM 579 /1: Folder Demonstration leaflet and press cutting, 1923;  Agendas for annual conferences, annual reports of NMWM (incomplete), 1925-1936.

2/ Bound minutes volume (in fact minutes formerly gummed, stapled & clipped into volume, later removed and interfiled in volume loose, before deposit). Records appear in chronological order. Contains: National committee minutes (not all signed), 1932-1937; 

SPECIAL CONFERENCE minutes and election return for continuing Trustees of NMWM, 6 February 1937;  Conference and committee documents, various Trustees and National committee: minutes of joint meetings Trustees minutes and circulars, 1937-1938

PACIFIST RESEARCH BUREAU (came into being after the dissolution of National committee): minutes, 1938-1939 (ms. sheet of accounts accompanies 15 iv 1939) General Purposes committee minutes (incomplete), 1932-1934; 1937 Control committee minutes, 1932 Standing Orders committee minutes [in anticipation of SPECIAL CONFERENCE of 6 February 1937], 23 January 1937 National committee/Federation Secs./Midlands Council Joint Session, minutes, 25 March 1934 Federation Secs. conference minutes, 25 March 1934 Local records/returns: branch statistics, January 1936 Residual correspondence, circulars; No More War: final issue [organ of NMWM] for Mar-Apr, 1937 Finance Commission minutes, 23 March 1932 Finance Committee minutes (incomplete), 1935-1936

The Religious Society of Friends Library also hold the periodical No More War: the organ of the No More War Movement, vol. 8.5, 9.11, 10.1 (1929-1930), NS Vol. 2 1 & 3 (1936).

Access Rights

Open - contact the Religious Society of Friends Library.

Coverage1932-39
Size of Collection1 box (2 files) (plus the volumes of the No More War periodical listed above).
Finding Aids/Catalogues
Reference of CatalogueNRA 12652 No More War
Additional information

The Southend-on-Sea branch records of the No More War Movement (1934-37: minutes) have been deposited at the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands.

 

The records of the Norwich Branch have been deposited in Norfolk Record Office and are to be found among the Records of the Society of Friends in Norfolk [SF1 - SF334] (see online catalogue).

 

There is also a correspondence file (No More War Movement (General Secretary, Lucy A. Cox) to A. Henderson and JSM (mainly) - ref. LP/JSM/WR/1-28 - date: 1927 June-1930 Feb) in the Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum/University of Central Lancashire): Labour Party Archives [LP/JSM] (online catalogue)

Source of InformationContacts with Religious Society of Friends Library; NRA
Last Edited at01/04/2009 17:43:12

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