The #ObjectWar Campaign – an alliance that includes many FoR partners around Europe – has organised a week of actions on behalf of conscientious objectors. Fellow members in Austria and Germany are engaging their Parliaments and FoR in Switzerland is holding a converastion. Central to the campaign is a demand that the right to conscientious […]
This is the full account by Edna Mathieson of how the conscientious objectors memorial in London was conceived and created. It has previously been published in four sections: one two three four. In 1976, my uncle, Joe Brett, died. He had been a life-long socialist, and because of those principles, had been a conscientious objector (CO)
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This is the last of four blogs by Edna Mathieson telling the story of how the conscientious objectors’ memorial in Tavistock Square, London came about. In the first blog, she told of her early attempts to create a memorial through the Greater London Council (GLC) and how they failed when the GLC was abolished. In the second, she detailed her subsequent, successful,
The Conscientious Objectors’ Stone in Tavistock Square – and how it came about Read More »
This is the third of four blogs by Edna Mathieson telling the story of how the conscientious objectors’ memorial in Tavistock Square, London came about. In the first blog, she told of her early attempts to create a memorial through the Greater London Council (GLC) and how they failed when the GLC was abolished. In the second, she
The Conscientious Objectors’ Stone in Tavistock Square – and how it came about Read More »
This is the second of four blogs by Edna Mathieson telling the story of how the conscientious objectors’ memorial in Tavistock Square, London came about. In the first blog, available here, she told of her early attempts to create a memorial through the Greater London Council (GLC) and how they failed when the GLC was
The Conscientious Objectors’ Stone in Tavistock Square – and how it came about Read More »
This is the first of four blogs by Edna Mathieson telling the story of how the conscientious objectors’ memorial in Tavistock Square, London came about. In this piece, she tells how the idea for the memorial came about and the first attempts to create it. In 1976, my uncle, Joe Brett, died. He had been
The Conscientious Objectors’ Stone in Tavistock Square – and how it came about Read More »
