Rationalist Peace Society
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0372 RPS |
Held at | : Bishopsgate Institute Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library › |
Full title | : Rationalist Peace Society |
Date(s) | : 1905-1921 |
Level of description | : Fonds |
Extent | : 1 box |
Name of creator(s) | : Rationalist Peace Society |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Rationalist Peace Society was founded in 1910 by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner and J.M.Robertson MP. The Society established itself during the period of increasing controversy about war preceding the First World War. The aim was to "protest against ideas and methods which are utterly opposed to reason and the interests of social progress." As the war progressed it was divided by the issue of conscientious objection and conscription - and as members began to feel the war was justified it dwindled until fading away after the war.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Rationalist Peace Society, 1905-1921, including minute book of the Society, containing correspondence drafts and circulars, 1910-1921; annual reports and financial statements of the Society, 1911-1914; ciculars and ephemera, 1914-1917; account book of the Society, 1918-1921; press cuttings concerning, and articles by, Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, 1905-1917; copies of Rationalist Peace Quarterly, journal of the Rationalist Peace Society, 1912-1913.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement at present.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
No further finding aids available at present.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Perhaps deposited at Bishopsgate Institute by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner with her father's (Charles Bradlaugh) papers.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
10 August 2005.
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