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In the 1930s Reg Williams was a trapeze artist, pictured here under his stage name of 'Delgado'. His act, called the 'Slide of Death', was a highlight of the Hippodrome Vaudeville Company's show.

Postcard cartoon depicting a soldier shooting a striking worker. The postcard is reprinted from the Passive Resisters' Union journal the Repeal.

A photograph of Douglas Day as a young man, sitting on a chair.

Ernest Munns was a salesman for the Crown Clothing Company and a member of the Richmond Mission at the time of his hearing before the Military Service Board in Christchurch in December 1917. His objections to military service were on religious…

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…

A photograph of the first CWEA (Canterbury Workers' Educational Association) Summer School, Oxford, 1920. Members of the Page, Ockenden, Struthers and Johnson families were among the participants. Anti-militarists Ted Howard, Clyde Carr, and Robert…

A photograph of a large group of people, the delegates to the conference of the Society of Friends in New Zealand, held in Auckland at Easter 1914. Included in the group are Alfred Gregory (back row third from right, in front); Margaret Lloyd (third…

A flyer for a public meeting held in Kaiapoi, June 1912 when Charles Mackie and Morgan Williams gave the 'other side of the question' about compulsory military training.

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.

Photograph of Frank Money with his wife Ruth, born Read and their first child John Money, born in 1921.