From the archive: Protest and punishment
Janet Scott continues her series of extracts taken from the pages of the Friend magazine published between 1914 and 1918.
At the end of 1915 the Friend gave up its ‘Day by Day’ feature, which reported national and international news. Thereafter news featured in its pages only as it was seen to affect Friends.
The Easter Rising
An extension of the new Military Service Act in May 1916, calling up married men and youths of eighteen, was covered on 12 May, but the Irish Easter Rising, in line with the new policy, was only reported because it led to the postponement of Ireland Yearly Meeting:
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