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A receiving home was organised as first port of call for Belgian refugees, before longer-term accommodation found #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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The paper by @MsJoAnnCurtis centres on the War Refugees Fund in Brum (1914/19). Says til now little pub'd work on Belgian refugees #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Today @WoodbrookeConf for Quaker Studies Research Association conf, Nonconformist Responses to #ww1! Conference hashtag is #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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And we're off! Intro followed by @MsJoAnnCurtis frm @BM_AG spking abt #Quaker responses to Belgian refugees in #Birmingham #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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A contingent of the War Refugees Fund might today be called an 'interfaith partnership', argues @MsJoAnnCurtis #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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#Quakers involved in the Fund incl Cadburys, Sturges, Lloyds. 1st arrivals frm Belgium on 4 Sept 1914. In all Brum saw over 5000. #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Dr Mary Sturge involved in Medical Committee for refugees, but there were a range of assistive committees incl employment #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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1stly little ill feeling,but later some worried abt emp't of single refugee men (tho Austins co. seek workers directly frm abroad) #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Nxt up, Penelope Cummins on #Quaker responses to 1916 conscription #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Less than 20,000 #Quakers at start of #ww1. Cummins sketches out historic peace testimony & how articulated around start of #fww #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Quakers decided in late19th/e20thc that they'd support *all* those against conscription, not only religious refusers/activists #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Sir John Simon resigns frm gov over Dec '15 conscription discussions, suggesting conscientious objectors insufficiently considered #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Quaker MPs TE Harvey & Arnold Rowntree worked for a more considered conscientious objection clause #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Abt a third of eligible Q men of 'fighting age' (c500) joined military services, but only c200 joined B4 conscription introduced #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Question abt stats.Cummins acknowledges how complex&unsatisfactory stats are,&depend on who's reporting&what group/time tlking abt #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Work of @LegaciesofWW1's Cyril Pearce is mentioned for its importance & development of stats abt contentious objectors #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Betty Hagglund now speaking abt Quakers & 'enemy aliens' in #fww.
At the start of #ww1 approx 56000 Germans living in GB #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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These were normal ppl going abt their lives. In Aug 1914 legislation intro'd for their registration, & enemy alien restrictions. #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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#Birmingham #Quaker Sophia Sturge promotes the idea of *doing something* to help #ww1 'enemy aliens' & their British families. #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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The Friends Emergency Committee formed. They help, eg, #ww1 enemy aliens, ejected frm work & home, sleeping rough in parks #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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But 7 Aug 1914 gov orders detention of #ww1 male 'enemy aliens'. Numbers reach 1000s within wks; 11000 in September. #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Policy suspended because nowhere to put them. Reintro'd after Lusitania's sinking. Now detention expanded to men betw 17&55. #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Hagglund now tlking abt how severely the restrictions & suspension of income hit the wives, partners & families of enemy aliens #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Hagglund has now moved on to discussing the (frequently unsuitable) internment camps, & Knockaloe & Quaker tutor James T Baily #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Evening News called #Quakers 'Hun coddlers' for helping 'enemy aliens'. Physical threats were made. Baily's wife mocked in public #QSRA2015
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 AM