From the archive: The war and children
Janet Scott continues her series of extracts from the Friend published during the first world war. In this selection she considers the impact of war on children.
At the Yearly Meeting in 1916 two sessions were devoted to children and one to education. The edition of the Friend on 2 June contained extensive reports on Yearly Meeting and on these sessions. Maurice Whitlow highlighted the fact that, initially, children had made an amazing contribution to the ‘war effort’.
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