Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Peace Society, New South Wales Branch

Pacifist group which grew out of the anti-Boer War campaigns, opposing the principle of compulsory military training and promoting arbitration as a means of settling international disputes.

Milestone
Formed
1907
Position
1907
1907 - 1917
1907 - 1917
1909 - 1914
1909 - 1916
1912 - 1916
1916 - 1917
1917 - 1925
Type

World War I and the Peace Society in Sydney

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2014

The many wartime tensions between members of the New South Wales Peace Society was, in microcosm, one small example of the way in which the World War I split and deeply divided Sydney. Between 1914 and 1918, political, pacifist and patriotic tensions between the Society's members fractured this once united group.