Military Service Tribunals Workshop
2016 will see the centenary of the Military Service Act in Great Britain. In anticipation of a heightened interest in conscription, we will be holding a free workshop looking at the challenges faced...
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Research in Brief – The female force of conscientious objection ...
Contributed by Sonja Tiernan. An Irishwoman in England The reaction to men joining the army or refusing the call to volunteer was intrinsically different in Britain and Ireland. While generally based...
Research in Brief – Seventh-day Adventists and the WWI tribunals...
Contributed by Victor Hulbert, Communication director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the UK & Ireland. John Benefield was both a baker and a Conscientious Objector. Working in an essenti...
Conscientious Objection and Military Tribunals
Military Tribunals and the First World War An introduction to their value as a source for the local historian. Contributed by Julie Moore In January 1916 the British Parliament passed the first of th...