26th February 2016

Archive photographic montage: Conscription and conscience

by The Friend

Above top left: Conscientious objectors put to work in Dartmoor prison (courtesy of The Peace Pledge Union). Above top right: T Edmund Harvey, Quaker Liberal MP who drafted the…

26th February 2016

The politics of conscription and conscience

by David Boulton
26th February 2016

Where are we now?

by Rachel Brett
26th February 2016

Hubert Peet

by Ian Kirk-Smith
26th February 2016

A pacifist in Israel

by Symon Hill
26th February 2016

No-Conscription Fellowship Manifesto

by No-Conscription Fellowship

The case for and against compulsory military and munition service is being argued by many who, for reasons of age or sex, would not be subject to it. The signatories to this…

26th February 2016

See more, hear more, read more

by Ian Kirk-Smith
26th February 2016

‘Masters of their own souls’

by Arnold S Rowntree

Severe things are said by some about the conscientious objector. He is often called a slacker. I want to suggest to honourable members that it is not quite fair to speak in these…

26th February 2016

Conscientious Objector

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor. He is in haste; he has business in…

19th February 2016

Meeting in the mountains

by Tara Craig
19th February 2016

The present

by Elinor Smallman
19th February 2016

Thought for the Week: Being transformed

by Huw Still

When I arrived here I was comfortable in my faith. I was comfortable in my doubt. I could sense that something special was present in a gathered Meeting, but I’d never known what…