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The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918 (Paperback)
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The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Welsh History
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This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the
opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive
study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain. It is,
therefore, a significant contribution to our understanding of
people's responses to the conflict, and the difficulty of
mobilising the population for total war. The anti-war movement in
Wales and beyond developed quickly from the initial shock of the
declaration of war, to the civil disobedience of anti-war activists
and the industrial discontent excited by the Russian Revolution and
experienced in areas such as the south Wales coalfield in 1917. The
differing responses to the war within Wales are explored in this
book, which charts how the pacifist tradition of nineteenth-century
Welsh Nonconformity was quickly overturned. The two main elements
of the anti-war movement are analysed in depth: the pacifist
religious opposition, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the
Nonconformist dissidents who were particularly influential in north
and west Wales; and the political opposition concentrated in the
Independent Labour Party and among the radical left within the
South Wales Miners' Federation.
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