'…even within a community committed to peace there was no single response to the challenges of war' Photo: Bryan Costin / flickr CC.
The long shadow of war
Julia Bush and Ruth Whitehouse write about how some Northamptonshire Friends commemorated the first world war through family history
by Julia Bush and Ruth Whitehouse
3rd March 2017
Every Remembrance Day Quakers mourn for those who have suffered and died in wars, soldiers and civilians alike. We pledge ourselves to resist war and its consequences, whether or not our peace testimony has led us towards a stance of absolute pacifism. Commemoration of the first world war centenary has drawn Northamptonshire Quakers into an extended consideration of our own and our families’ relationship to war and peace.
