Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 WILPF
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section
Date(s)	: 1915-1981
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 33 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was formed in 1915, when a group of women met in an International Congress at The Hague to protest against World War One and to suggest ways of ending it and preventing future wars. The organisers of the Congress were prominent women in the International Suffrage Alliance who assembled more than a thousand women from both belligerent and neutral countries to work out the principles on which the war could be stopped and a permanent peace constructed. The Congress established an International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, which four years later became the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The organisation continues to function as an NGO, working for peace and disarmament, social and economic justice, and the full enjoyment of human rights. Its international headquarters are in Geneva and it has branches in around 50 countries.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Executive Committee minutes; annual reports; circular letters and international circular letters; papers, notes and correspondence on subjects including women's suffrage, India, Germany, and the early history of WILPF; printed material, including press cutting books; and additional members' correspondence, notes and papers concerning refugees and immigrants, and lobbying of the United Nations.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 6 sections:
1. Executive Committee Minutes, 1918-1954.
2. Annual Reports, 1915-1919, 1933-1961.
3. Circular Letters and International Circular Letters, 1939-1948.
4. Papers, 1915-1962.
5. Printed materials, 1908-1938.
6. Additional material, 1928-c1980.

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE DONOR

Finding aids:

Printed handlist and online catalogue available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 29, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 29, 2002