World War 1 and Dissent at Senate House Library in a nutshell: Where?: Senate House Library Nearest tube - Warren Street When?: 22 November 2014, 10:30-17:00 Point of contact: Jonathan Cardy (jonathan.cardywikimedia.org.uk) for Wikimedia UK, Twitter: @wikimediauk Cost: Free

The event will focus on editing Wikipedia pages about WW1 and dissent - Peace attempts, Conscience objectors, neutrality

How do I prepare?

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• Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop then email jonathan.cardywikimedia.org.uk as Wikimedia UK has a limited number for such events
• Learn about editing if you like: Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

• Refreshments will be provided

This is the London end of a multi site event which is also at Library of Birmingham and WWI Museum in Kansas City

• 10:30 - 11:00 coffees set up and registration

• 16:30 - meeting adjourns to Kansas city via Skype

Please register here

1. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk)

• Conscientious Objectors in Birmingham in WW1
• Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
• Congregational Memorial Hall – Nonconformist meeting place where the No-Conscription Fellowship held its first convention

The below list includes a list of different content that could be expand or created during the editathons. References on the item link to scholarship that might be useful in writing or expanding the topic.

• Anti-war movement#World War I – The World War I anti-war movement section is rather weak, could use significant expansion. (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: World War One Era Pamphlets MS1152)
• Dada – Anti-war implications of the movement could be expanded. Multiple scholars place the Dada Movement within the Anti-War reaction^[1][2]
• International Congress of Women – Could be expanded, currently several meetings of the congress uncovered in the article. Pacifist organization, international peace movement, women activists

• Caroline Playne – Needs an article (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: Playne Collection)
• John Wheatley – Currently no footnotes, could be expanded, Scottish Politician
• Judah Leon Magnes#Pacifism and the anti-war movement – Anti-war Jewish leader, also links to politicians and other objectors to the war
• Emily Greene Balch – American Nobel-wining Quaker entered the peace movement during World War I
• Walter Liggett – American journalist
• Ruth Fry – British Quaker and anti-war
• Catherine Courtney – British women's right's activist, mentioned in Opposition to World War I
• Catherine Marshall – British women's suffrage activist mentioned in Opposition to World War I
• Randolph Bourne – American writer
• Morris Hillquit – American socialist politician, under developed discussion of his opposition to the war
• Charles H. Kerr – American publisher of radical work
• Kate Richards O'Hare – American socialist and anti-war activist
• Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
• Barrow Cadbury (Birmingham)
• William Joseph Chamberlain – New article about this pacifist

• "You Have No Country" – Important collection of anti-war essays published by socialists, including *Mary Marcy
• Die Waffen nieder or Lay Down Your Arms! – Could be expanded, as an antiwar novel prominent in German circles before. Moreover, 1914 adaptation as protest of the WWI^[3]
• American antiwar literature

• No-Conscription Fellowship – Has been expanded. The Senate House Library has 24 issues of their journal, The Tribunal.
• Friends Ambulance Unit – Section on First World War could be expanded
• The Guild of the Pope's Peace – Could be created or included in Anti-war_movement#World_War_I
• Missing groups from From notes on Pacifist, Anti-Conscription, and Civil Liberties Groups - 1914-1919 described in the editorial notes for the Emma Goldman papers at UC Berkley
• Friends War Victims Relief Committee – Mentioned in Ruth Fry

• Chemical_Corps#World_War_I – Significant public debate and pressure post war could be expanded^[4]
• New_Negro#The_First_World_War – Signficant post-war resistance from African Americans involved in the war - current article doesn't explore much depth- article about the resistance post-war
• Woman's Peace Party – Needs significant expansion. Anti-war party and advocate for women's rights, big gap in the organizations history during the period of the war
• No Conscription League
• American Union Against Militarism
• Selective Service Act of 1917 – No mention of the resistance groups to the draft law
• New York Emergency Peace Federation – Mentioned in section of People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace
• Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company – Publishing company important radical publishing materials

• Opposition to World War I
  • Category:Opposition_to_World_War_I
• World War I literature
  • Category:Anti-war_works
• Anti-war movement#World War I
• British_women's_literature_of_World_War_I
• Category:World War I propaganda

Many of these sources address Dissent in WWI directly and were discovered through a google scholar search of works citing Over Here: The First World War and American Society

• Anababtist encyclopedia with bibliography - not good for citation but sources could be integrated more thoroughly
• http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a486008.pdf
• - Discusses German-American groups in the U.S. during the war
• - Discusses foreign communities in New York City as they develop different ways of commemorating the war
• - article analyzes post-WWI "Red Scare" and relationship to War resistence
• - American baseball's reluctance during the war
• article about censorship of mail during WWI targeting socialists in the US
• - Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - discusses resistance in the rural American south to the war
• - Dissertation titled "SOLDIER BOYS OF TEXAS: THE SEVENTH TEXAS INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR I" briefly discusses the resistance to draft, etc.
• - Ungrateful Bodies: Rehabilitation, Resistance and Disabled American Veterans of the First World War
• Discusses the Civilian life during the war
• "Perils of Prussianism": Main Street German America, Local Autonomy, and the Great War
• Literature survey of the war's meaning, highlight several studies that pay attention to war period
• "Against Their Own Weakness": Policing Sexuality and Women in San Antonio, Texas, during World War I
• CONSCRIPTION POLICY, CITIZENSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DURING WORLD WAR ONE Dissertation with thorough examination of the movement, esp. in Canada - excellent bibliography
• Mob Violence and Kansas Mennonites in 1918
• Showdown in Burrton, Kansas
• Kansas Mennonites during WWI- masters thesis from Fort Hays University (requires request for access)
• University of Richmond master's thesis "Deporting "Red Emma" : the political and legal battles for citizenship, 1917-1921"
• Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917–1919
• UGA MA Thesis
• Mobilizing Sentiment: Popular American Women's Fiction of the Great War; 1914-1922 Dissertation UNL
• A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I By Frances H. Earl
• Swarthmore college peace collection
• Chapter in Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution by Alan Dawley
• Anti-War History in the Northwest

• Explore our collection of First World War records (The National Archives)
• The World War Sources for History (The National Archives)
• World War One - The British Library Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe.
• First World War Learning Resources (Imperial War Museums)
• The Illustrated First World War from the archives of The Illustrated London News
• The Playne Collection The printed Playne Collection comprises some 530 books and pamphlets pertaining to the First World War. This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
• World War One Era Pamphlets (MS1152) This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
• First World War Centenary Quakers in Britain
• Opposing World War One: Courage and Conscience An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. (Quakers in Britain)
• Quaker Strongrooms: a Blog from the Library of the Society of Friends (Quakers in Britain)
• Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit (Quakers in Britain)
• Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee collection on archive catalogue (Quakers in Britain)
• Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (Quakers in Britain)

• World War I Crossroads (H-Net)
• Resistance in New Zealand to Conscription
• The First World War: The Story of a Global Conflict (The Guardian)

• More at commons:Category:Emily_Johns

This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need a disabled parking space please contact us in advance. Please tell us in advance if you need to have a hearing loop available.