Comrades in Conscience
is a groundbreaking study of opposition to the First World
War in one locality - Huddersfield - where a unique consensus
of Nonconformist Liberals and a vigorous labour and socialist
movement earned it the reputation of being 'a hotbed of pacifism'.
Using local sources, including the weekly socialist newspaper
The Worker, the records of anti-conscription organisations,
as well as the testimonies of conscientious objectors themselves,
Cyril Pearce portrays a community largely unenthusiastic about
the war and tolerant of those who resisted it, and goes on
to question widely-held assumptions
about the war's popularity.
Author: Cyril Pearce
Publisher: Comrades
in Conscience
