Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Senate House Library Nov 2014/Target List

New articles

 * Conscientious Objectors in Birmingham in WW1
 * Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
 * Congregational Memorial Hall – Nonconformist meeting place where the No-Conscription Fellowship held its first convention

Articles to work on
The below list includes a list of different content that could be expand or created during the editathons. References on the item link to scholarship that might be useful in writing or expanding the topic.

General topics

 * Anti-war movement – The World War I anti-war movement section is rather weak, could use significant expansion. (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: World War One Era Pamphlets MS1152)
 * Dada – Anti-war implications of the movement could be expanded. Multiple scholars place the Dada Movement within the Anti-War reaction
 * International Congress of Women – Could be expanded, currently several meetings of the congress uncovered in the article. Pacifist organization, international peace movement, women activists

People

 * Caroline Playne – Needs an article (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: Playne Collection)
 * John Wheatley – Currently no footnotes, could be expanded, Scottish Politician
 * Judah Leon Magnes – Anti-war Jewish leader, also links to politicians and other objectors to the war
 * Emily Greene Balch – American Nobel-wining Quaker entered the peace movement during World War I
 * Walter Liggett – American journalist
 * Ruth Fry – British Quaker and anti-war
 * Catherine Courtney – British women's right's activist, mentioned in Opposition to World War I
 * Catherine Marshall – British women's suffrage activist mentioned in Opposition to World War I
 * Randolph Bourne – American writer
 * Morris Hillquit – American socialist politician, under developed discussion of his opposition to the war
 * Charles H. Kerr – American publisher of radical work
 * Kate Richards O'Hare – American socialist and anti-war activist
 * Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
 * Barrow Cadbury (Birmingham)
 * William Joseph Chamberlain – New article about this pacifist

Literature

 * "You Have No Country" – Important collection of anti-war essays published by socialists, including *Mary Marcy
 * Die Waffen nieder or Lay Down Your Arms! – Could be expanded, as an antiwar novel prominent in German circles before. Moreover, 1914 adaptation as protest of the WWI
 * American antiwar literature

Groups

 * No-Conscription Fellowship – Has been expanded. The Senate House Library has 24 issues of their journal, The Tribunal.
 * Friends Ambulance Unit – Section on First World War could be expanded
 * The Guild of the Pope's Peace – Could be created or included in Anti-war_movement
 * Missing groups from From notes on Pacifist, Anti-Conscription, and Civil Liberties Groups - 1914-1919 described in the editorial notes for the Emma Goldman papers at UC Berkley
 * Friends War Victims Relief Committee – Mentioned in Ruth Fry

United States topics

 * Chemical_Corps – Significant public debate and pressure post war could be expanded
 * New_Negro – Signficant post-war resistance from African Americans involved in the war - current article doesn't explore much depth- article about the resistance post-war
 * Woman's Peace Party – Needs significant expansion. Anti-war party and advocate for women's rights, big gap in the organizations history during the period of the war
 * No Conscription League
 * American Union Against Militarism
 * Selective Service Act of 1917 – No mention of the resistance groups to the draft law
 * New York Emergency Peace Federation – Mentioned in section of People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace
 * Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company – Publishing company important radical publishing materials

Where else to look for gaps

 * Opposition to World War I
 * Category:Opposition_to_World_War_I
 * World War I literature
 * Category:Anti-war_works
 * Anti-war movement
 * British_women%27s_literature_of_World_War_I
 * Category:World War I propaganda

American
Many of these sources address Dissent in WWI directly and were discovered through a google scholar search of works citing Over Here: The First World War and American Society
 * Anababtist encyclopedia with bibliography - not good for citation but sources could be integrated more thoroughly
 * http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a486008.pdf
 * - Discusses German-American groups in the U.S. during the war
 * - Discusses foreign communities in New York City as they develop different ways of commemorating the war
 * - article analyzes post-WWI "Red Scare" and relationship to War resistence
 * - American baseball's reluctance during the war
 * article about censorship of mail during WWI targeting socialists in the US
 * - Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - discusses resistance in the rural American south to the war
 * - Dissertation titled "SOLDIER BOYS OF TEXAS: THE SEVENTH TEXAS INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR I" briefly discusses the resistance to draft, etc.
 * - Ungrateful Bodies: Rehabilitation, Resistance and Disabled American Veterans of the First World War
 * Discusses the Civilian life during the war
 * "Perils of Prussianism": Main Street German America, Local Autonomy, and the Great War
 * Literature survey of the war's meaning, highlight several studies that pay attention to war period
 * "Against Their Own Weakness": Policing Sexuality and Women in San Antonio, Texas, during World War I
 * CONSCRIPTION POLICY, CITIZENSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DURING WORLD WAR ONE Dissertation with thorough examination of the movement, esp. in Canada - excellent bibliography
 * Mob Violence and Kansas Mennonites in 1918
 * Showdown in Burrton, Kansas
 * Kansas Mennonites during WWI- masters thesis from Fort Hays University (requires request for access)
 * University of Richmond master's thesis "Deporting "Red Emma" : the political and legal battles for citizenship, 1917-1921"
 * Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917–1919
 * UGA MA Thesis
 * Mobilizing Sentiment: Popular American Women's Fiction of the Great War; 1914-1922 Dissertation UNL
 * A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I By Frances H. Earl
 * Swarthmore college peace collection
 * Chapter in Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution by Alan Dawley
 * Anti-War History in the Northwest

British

 * Explore our collection of First World War records (The National Archives)
 * The World War Sources for History (The National Archives)
 * World War One - The British Library Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe.
 * First World War Learning Resources (Imperial War Museums)
 * The Illustrated First World War from the archives of The Illustrated London News
 * The Playne Collection The printed Playne Collection comprises some 530 books and pamphlets pertaining to the First World War. This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
 * World War One Era Pamphlets (MS1152) This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
 * First World War Centenary Quakers in Britain
 * Opposing World War One: Courage and Conscience An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. (Quakers in Britain)
 * Quaker Strongrooms: a Blog from the Library of the Society of Friends (Quakers in Britain)
 * Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit (Quakers in Britain)
 * Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee collection on archive catalogue (Quakers in Britain)
 * Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (Quakers in Britain)

Global

 * World War I Crossroads (H-Net)
 * Resistance in New Zealand to Conscription
 * The First World War: The Story of a Global Conflict (The Guardian)

Images uploaded

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