{"id":8629,"date":"2017-08-13T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=8629"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:26:00","slug":"studio-1-refusing-fight","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/studio-1-refusing-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio 1: Refusing to fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6263 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-260x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Whiteford brothers\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-260x300.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-604x698.jpeg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-100x116.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-270x312.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-130x150.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10.jpeg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A combatant, conchie and ambulance driver; the Whiteford brothers go to \u2018war\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Conscientious Decision-Making [Lois Bibbings]<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This talk gives a brief insight into what First World War conscientious objectors to military service meant when they talked about &#8216;conscience&#8217; or the reasoning behind their decision and how their beliefs or thinking impacted upon the course of action they took during conscription. It does so by telling stories about a few of those who objected.<\/p>\n<h2>Martyrs or Rebels? Another side of Britain\u2019s 1914-18 war resisters [Cyril Pearce]<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our view of Britain\u2019s 1914-1918 war resisters has been conditioned by the apparently stoic and principled suffering of Conscientious Objectors. This presentation will suggest that alongside that there is another story which the anti-war movement of the time and its subsequent historians has been reluctant to admit. It is a story of a less reputable sort of resistance which involved determined law-breaking and persistent strategies to defy and irritate the authorities \u2013 desertion, work boycotts, hunger strikes, safe houses, forgery, deception, an \u2018underground railway\u2019, collaboration with Irish rebels and escape to America. 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