Posters for peace

Philip Austin dips into the Northern Friends Peace Board's poster archive

A selection of peace posters | Photo: All posters courtesy of the Northern Friends Peace Board

The Northern Friends Peace Board is dipping into a rich archival pool to mark its centenary next year.

A calendar for 2013, which draws on a selection of several hundred posters from the Board’s collection, is the first in a number of centenary initiatives. Posters were one of the main tools for promoting peace ideas that the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) used from its outset. The Board was set up at a peace conference of Friends from Northern Quarterly Meetings on 5 January 1913.

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