| Level | Collection |
| Ref_No | WILPF |
| Title | Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section |
| Date | 1915-2008 |
| Description | Executive Committee minutes; annual reports; photographs; newsletters; conference papers; 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 Status | Open |
| Extent | 117 boxes and 1 oversize item |
| Admin 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 I 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. |
| Arrangement | This collection is arranged in sections as follows:
1. Executive Committee Minutes, 1918-1954.
2. Annual Reports, 1915-1919, 1933-1960/61.
3. Circular Letters and International Circular Letters, 1939-1948.
4. Papers, 1915-1962.
5. Printed materials, 1908-1938.
6. Additional material, 1928-c 1980.
7-14: Unknown (unlisted)
15. Additional material donated by Mary Nuttall (formerly WILPF Add)
16. Papers of Edith Ineson relating to WILPF
17. Minutes
18. International Congresses
19. Additional Papers
2009: material transferred from the Women's Library
2011: additional material, mainly from WILPF HQ
2012: additional material, from Margaret Turner. |
| Copyright | No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user. |