Poster #1: The great case of Bodkin v Bodkin

In which peace activists appropriate a pompous prosecutor’s words for anti-war propaganda (and end up in court).

Poster #2: ‘Here we are again!!’

In which the women of the No-Conscription Fellowship defy police raids, prosecution & prison to maintain the anti-war movement's clandestine printing press

Poster #3: Alice Wheeldon was a prophet

In which Alice Wheeldon is framed for conspiracy to murder Lloyd George, jailed for ten years, and released within one

Poster #4: The Women’s Peace Crusade, 1916 – 1918

In which women across Britain take to the streets, braving pro-war mobs to demand peace

Poster #5: Te Puea

In which a Maori princess leads her people's successful campaign of nonviolent resistance to conscription

Poster #6: Armin T. Wegner, 1915-1916

In which a young German soldier disobeys orders and takes action to expose the Armenian genocide

Poster #7: Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

In which an Irish feminist advocates nonviolent revolution & defies the law to analyse the war 'in logical fashion'

Poster #8: War Against War, 2 August 1914

In which 100,000 Britons oppose the looming war and a very radical feminist pursues a brilliant idea for peace ...

Poster #9: Richard Müller & the Revolutionary Stewards

In which an little-known lathe operator organises Germany's first mass political strike of the war, and (later) helps overthrow the government ...

Poster #10: The Banning of Bertie

In which England's greatest living philosopher is banned from a third of Britain, outwits the government and loses his sense of humour.

Other people’s freedoms

Occupation, massacre and imperial exploitation were commonplace in the pre-1914 ‘international order’

Resisting Empire’s Call: African resistance to the First World War

In which a deserting Nigerian Sergeant eludes British forces, and Africans from across the continent resist the First World War

FILM: ‘To End All Wars’ with Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild on the courageous people who opposed the First World War.

Poem #1: Sketches for Alice Wheeldon and her daughters and gaolers

A specially commissioned poem by Anna Robinson about framed WW1 resister Alice Wheeldon.

Poem #2: Remembering

A specially commissioned poem by Alan Brownjohn, celebrating three jailed First World War resisters.

Poem #3: Wedi Cad, Coludd ar Ddrain

A line from a 12th century Welsh poem provides the inspiration for this poem by Mererid Hopwood

Poem #4: Brixton Jail, 1918

The jailing of Bertrand Russell provides the inspiration for Mererid Hopwood's 2nd poem

Poem #5: A wide path leads to war, a narrow path leads home

A Russian proverb provides the inspiration for Mererid Hopwood's third poem

Poem #6: I cannot, my friend, kill my brother

Welsh conscientious objectors are the subject of Mererid Hopwood's fourth poem

Song #1: Emily’s Bridge

A specially commissioned song by Krysia Mansfield, celebrating Emily Hobhouse's one-woman peace mission to Berlin.

Song #2: Anonymous

A specially commissioned song by Dan Kennedy, celebrating the Independent Labour Party newspaper the Labour Leader.