The Great War: Collections

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These are just a few of the archive collections on the Hub which reflect individual experiences of the First World War:

Letters of militant suffragettes: includes letters of Emmeline (1858-1928) and Christabel Pankhurst (1881-1958), who were fervent supporters of the war
Mary Ward (1851-1920): author; Order of the White Feather campaigner
Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956): former NUWSS campaigner who became Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation
Mary Sheepshanks (1872-1858): suffragette and pacifist, organised the International Women's Relief Committee
James Paterson (born 1885): Canadian conscientious objector, sentenced to hard labour
Asquith Dalton (fl 1917-1971): member of the No-Conscription Fellowship

Edward Addison (born 1895): served with War Victims Relief and the Friends' Ambulance Unit
Reverend R Peris Williams (died 1942): army chaplain
Peter Kennedy (born 1899): served in Mesopotamia, Persia, and Russia
Mary Gillott (1889-1926): a nurse in Archangel during the Allied Intervention in Russia
Francis William Kennedy (1862-1939): captain of the battlecruiser HMS Indomitable in the Battle of Jutland (May 1916)
Anonymous German reservist (died 1918)

Hedd Wyn (1887-1917): war poet, whose name means 'White Peace'
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1914): poet and artist
Joseph Johnston Lee (1876-1949): journalist, war poet and artist
Terence Philip (fl 1914-1918): British civilian prisoner of war interned at Ruhleben
John Masefield (1878-1967): served with the Red Cross; poet and author of an account of the Gallipoli campaign
First World War Collection: includes poetry and photographs by British soldiers

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