Huddersfield, 1914—while many signed up to fight in the war that would engulf the next four years, the town’s community of conscientious objectors was growing.
Henry Richard was the secretary of the Peace society from 1848 to 1886, an unconditional pacifist when the British Empire was at the height of its aggressive powers.
Stop the War: A Graphic History celebrates in photographs 10 years of the Stop the War movement, the demonstrations and events that captured the imagination of a generation, creating Britain’ biggest ever mass movement.