From the archive: 1917

Janet Scott continues her series of selections from the archives of the Friend and looks, this month, at January 1917

by Janet Scott 27th January 2017

It was the year of the Russian Revolution; the year the United States entered the war; the year of the advance into Palestine with the surrender of Jerusalem to the Allied forces, and the declaration by the British government of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations; the year of the Irish Convention; and the year the House of Commons adopted a large measure of woman’s suffrage.