File. Conscription

Reference No:
U DCL/12/2
Dates:
1938-1939
Description:
Includes papers, press cuttings and booklets relating to conscription and the controversy of the Military Training Act; paper explaining the military training bill and the applicability of conscription; correspondence from the Methodist Church asking about conscription in overseas colonies; pamphlets and press cuttings informing and advising conscientious objectors on how to proceed; correspondence relating to the conscription of students; press cuttings and papers by the No Conscription League and the Peace Pledge Union; correspondence relating to the founding and first meeting of the Streatham Conscription Resisters Aid Committee; pamphlets by the Citizen Service League advocating the Universal Training for Defence Act and advocating conscription; correspondence relating to conscientious objector tribunals; correspondence relating to the introduction of the Incitement to Dissatisfaction Act; Peace Pledge Union conscientious objector's manifesto pamphlet; letter to the Prime Minister from anti-conscription activitis; suggested amendments to the Conscription Act.
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)