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First 'Annual Meeting' New Zealand Friends, Christchurch

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A photograph of a large group of people sitting outside a building. English Quaker Percy Fletcher attended this first Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Religious Society of Friends, held in Christchurch. Fletcher is standing fourth from the left in…

'The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World'

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'The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World', a pamphlet produced by the National Peace Council and the Anti-Militarist League in August 1913.

Flyer for public anti-conscription meeting

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Flyer for a public anti-conscription meeting when Ada Wells and Charles Mackie were included in the line-up of speakers. National Peace Council pamphlet.

'Workers Awake' card

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'Workers Awake'. This card was produced by the National Peace Council, presumably for distribution to work-sites around the city. It quotes Ramsay McDonald, one of the founders of the British Labour Party, who during the First World War was a Labour…

Meeting of the National Council of Women, Christchurch 1897

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A photograph of the delegates to the second meeting of the National Council of Women, Christchurch, 1897. Ada Wells is seated in the middle row, second from left. Kate Sheppard is in the same row, fourth from left.

Photograph Socialist Conference 1911

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Group photo, taken at the Conference of Socialists, Wellington, 1911. Back row (from left): A Varella (Auckland), C Munnie (Wellington), T A Eagle (Huntly), M Silverstone (Feilding). Middle row (from left): G G Farland (Wellington), R Hogg (Gen Sec,…

Ripapa Island 2015

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A photograph of Ripapa Island, Lyttleton Harbour, 2015

The Perfect Soldier

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A Maoriland Worker newspaper cartoon satirising the introduction of Compulsory Military Training (CMT)

The Great White Elephant

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The Great White Elephant cartoon, from Morgan Williams' pamphlet, "The Great White Elephant".

Ted Howard's 'The Vag' column header, from the Maoriland Worker newspaper

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Ted Howard's 'The Vag' column header, from the Maoriland Worker newspaper