When Green Lanes said 'No' to war in 1914

HelenM

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Everyone welcome - dressing in period costume encouraged!</span><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">A peace rally which took place on Green Lanes at the start of the First World War will brought back to life this week - and brought up to date to remind people of present-day problems of conflict. The role of conscientious objectors will be particularly highlighted during the rally. </span><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">On Tuesday, 5th August at 7pm, the Haringey First World War Peace Forum will stage a re-enactment outside the Salisbury Pub in Green Lanes of an actual anti-war meeting that took place on the same spot 100 years ago. Speakers will include a conscientious objector, a suffragette and a vicar. They will be dressed in period costumes and will describe the situation 100 years ago and then draw parallels with world events today. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Everyone is welcome to attend the rally which will include songs from the period and will be followed by a social inside the pub. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Peace Forum and Hornsey Historical Society member Jennifer Bell, says: “A great number of Haringey men refused to fight on grounds of conscience. We have also found out about the hardships they suffered for their beliefs. “About 150 of these men lived in the old Borough of Hornsey - among them were pacifists, Quakers, Christadelphians, Socialists, Anarchists, Methodists, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Baptists and others. “They were in no way cowards, but strong men who felt they must act according to their beliefs no matter what the personal consequences, which included abuse, imprisonment, appalling conditions, ill-health and sometimes death.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">  </span></div>

conformable_kate

This sounds great - sadly I was away last week! I hope it went well.