Manchester Anti-WW1 exhibition

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To End All Wars

Exhibition at Working Class Movement Library, Salford, 51 Crescent, Salford M5 4WX

The Library’s new exhibition To End All Wars marks the centenary of the introduction of conscription in early 1916.  The north-west had a vigorous anti-war movement from 1914 onwards. This exhibition looks at some of those involved, both men and women, who fought for peace. Bill Chadwick from Westhoughton and Hugh Hutchinson from Bolton, whose stories were previously known only to their families, can now take their place amongst more famous names. Documents from the Hyde branch of the No-Conscription Fellowship, a unique collection held by the Library, are also on display. This is an alternative narrative of the war that deserves to be remembered as much as we commemorate those who fought and died.

The exhibition is open Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5pm, and will run until Easter 2016.

Incidentally also funded by the Lottery (which might explain the reference at the end about commemorating those who fought and died).

[alanjjohnstone]

And no doubt once more the contribution made by our party and the members at the time will go unrecorded and we won't even write an indignant letter protesting the fact much less actually demonstrate about it…as i said before…shame on us…

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