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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…

A photograph of a cost of living and anti-conscription demonstration in March 1917. It attracted over 2,500 people to the Colosseum in Christchurch.

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.

A photograph of William and Sarah Annie Ensom, long-term supporters of the National Peace Council.

This machine gun, captured in the South African war was on display in the city. It was rolled into the river in September 1912. The PRU denied all knowledge.

A photograph of Ripapa Island, Lyttleton Harbour, 2015

A photograph of the Nuttall family

A photograph of Robin Page

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