Article 70FPH Catalyst for peace? Welsh women’s 100-year-old petition gets new home

Catalyst for peace? Welsh women’s 100-year-old petition gets new home

by
Steven Morris
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Exhibition at National Library of Wales marks historic event that has also inspired a wave of activism


The story it tells is a glorious one: how a century ago a determined band of campaigners trailed door to door persuading a third of all Welsh women to sign a petition calling for world peace and delivered it to the US.

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