Records, 1915-1968.

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Records, 1915-1968.

Includes Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom. British Section's Exectuve Committee minutes, annual reports, circulars, and correspondence. Also the papers of Edith Weston, Catherine Marshall, and Mary Nuttall.

14 boxes and 2 volumes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8305547

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...