Event from: Bristol Radical History Festival 2018

Studio 1: Starting the flame: Agitators, Conchies and Miners in the Forest of Dean

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Date: , 2018
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With: Ian Wright
Series: Bristol Radical History Festival 2018
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Section: Events
Projects: Bristol’s WWI Conscientious Objectors
Subjects: Anarchism, Class, Workers Organisations & Strikes, World War I
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In August 1917 a meeting of Forest of Dean Miners passed motions against the conscription of miners and in favour of an immediate negotiated peace to end the war. This talk will discuss the role agitators and conscientious objectors played in this process and what happened next.

Ian Wright recently authored Ring Out the Thousand Wars of Old: The Forest of Dean World War One Conscientious Objectors.

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