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A photograph of Ada Wells, standing, speaking to the National Council of Women meeting in Wanganui in 1901

Newspaper cartoon 'A Warning to Anti-Militarists'

Members of the Socialist Church included James and Elizabeth McCombs, and Stella and Christina Henderson (sisters of Elizabeth). This photo taken at the McCombs home includes James McCombs, seated centre on lawn, and Elizabeth, standing fourth from…

'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…

The front cover of a pamphlet published by T. C. Gregory of Bristol. It was compiled from writing by New Zealanders and included extracts from C. Reginald Ford's booklet 'A Criticism of the Defence Act'; a statement about the Defence Act by P. J.…

A pamphlet written by Ada Wells and Sarah Page and published by the National Peace Council

'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.

A photograph of 60 signatures of conscientious objectors who spent time in Paparua Prison

This cartoon from the Maoriland Worker newspaper shows passive resisters being marched to Ripapa Island in Lyttleton Harbour.

A four-page pamphlet published by T. C. Gregory of Bristol which features the Sellar family who returned to Britain after their two sons resisted compulsory military training and spent time in Whanganui Prison as a result.