File. Central Board for Conscientious Objectors

Reference No:
U DCL/1/8
Dates:
1940-1941
Description:

Including:

a) letters regarding whether Conscientious Objectors would be conscripted (23-24/09/1941)

b) Central Board for Conscientious Objectors Publications

c) National Service Bill, 1941 - overview of how it concerns Conscientious Objectors (25/03/1941)

d) letter about the courts-martial because of the treatment of Conscientious Objectors at Dingle Camp (23/04/1941-1/05/1941)

e) 'The C.O.s Hansard: A series of reprints from Parliamentary Reports of matters concerning the C.O.' (Jul 1940)

f) 'Court-Martial Guide & Friend: For Conscientious Objectors' - abbreviated version of a detailed survey of court procedure for C.O.s (Central Board for Conscientious Objectors, August 1940)

g) Information Department of the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors: the present position of C.O.s. (Jul 1940)

h) overview of the meeting between the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors and the Representatives of Regional Committees at Friends' House; Survey of Activities; Memorandum for Submission to the Central Board; newspaper clipping about Conscientious Objectors: legal points, ill-treatments (Jan-Nov 1940)

i) correspondence between the Central Board of Conscientious Objectors and potential observers at Friends' House (7/03/1941-10/04/1941)

j) letter talking about the prejudices of the BBC against Conscientious Objectors and the pacifists unable to broadcast (6/03/1941)

k) letter and a copy of a memorandum about the regional organisation of local Advisory Bureaux or Committees (13/01/1941)

l) Forms that must be returned to Conscientious Objectors after being summoned and detained for medical examination (12/02/1941)

m) summaries for various situations facing the Conscientious Objectors and/or their families, and what to do (Oct 1940-Feb 1941), and also about the Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors (Jun 1940)

n) a summary of trials and legal cases with Conscientious Objectors with the analysis of decisions of local tribunals (January 1941)

o) a reprint from Parliamentary Reports of matters concerning Conscientious Objectors (January 1941)

p) summary of the year 1940 for Conscientious Objectors and the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors (10/01/1941)

q) circular to all Conscientious Objectors about what to do about enlistment, medical examination and the military service register (January 1940/41)

r) series of the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors list of publications, summary of the structure and needs, blank cheque to the treasurer, letter deciding the time of a board meeting (1940)

s) legal department asking for "The Conscientious Objectors Hansard" No. 5 (25/11/1940)

t) letter from Nancy Browne to Kidd about board meetings etc. (1940)

u) summary from the Information Department of cases, government responses to Conscientious Objectors, and appeals (March 1940)

v) Press Service from the Information Department (23/09/1940)

w) The Tribunal, "Three Messages to C.O.s", "Work of the C.B.C.O." (Sep, 1940)

x) the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors asking its Constituent Bodies and Advisory Bureaux to give their opinions, call a meeting of C.O.s to get their opinions. Examples of letters sent are also contained (July 1940)

y) arrested C.Os (15/05/1940)

z) 'The Central Board for Conscientious Objectors and its Work' (30/04/1940)

A) Bulletin No. 4 and summaries of activities involving C.O.s or the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors from the Information Department (April 1940)

B) Press Service about various pacifists being punished for not enlisting (6/05/1940), resistance against the South Wales Tribunal and an unconsented photographing (29/04/1940)

C) 'Notes on Prison Routine' published by the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors (1940)

D) start of a monthly bulletin (January 1940)

E) 'To Conscientious Objectors Placed on the Military Service Register', a request to be at the next meeting [8/02/1940] and the minutes for the Board meeting on 29th January 1940 (February 1940)

F) re-drafted leaflet of what to do to be a C.O.

G) correspondence between the NCCL and the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors (Feb-Mar 1940)

H) newspaper clipping of an extract from "The Scotsman" (23/02/1940)

I) newspaper clipping, Eastern Daily Press, "Peace Pledger's Answer: No Participation in Subversive Work" (23/02/1940)

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)