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Resources - Adnoddau Please scroll down for some Welsh language resources and links Quakers in Wales and the Peace Testimony in two world wars ‘The Society of Friends was initially as stunned by the outbreak of war as were many other groups dedicated to bettering the world. But at the end of September 1914, a conference was organised in Llandudno, North Wales, to help Friends sort out a response to the challenge, and the Society settled down, uneasily, to the position presented week by week in the pages of The Friend, that of a threefold service: to bear witness to the Peace Testimony, prepare for post-war reconstruction, and help relieve suffering.’ Geoffrey Carnall, Gandhi's Interpreter: A Life of Horace Alexander, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 28. Faced with the outbreak of WWI and given their own commitment to non-violence, numbers of Quakers served in relief of suffering, in helping Aliens via an emergency committee and in doing service in the Friends Ambulance Unit. A similar pattern emerged during and after WWII http://www.qsmt.org.uk/friends-ambulance-unit “In total some 93 WW1 Unit members received gallantry awards – mainly from the French – as British political opinion had debarred them from receiving British military gallantry awards” (from the website of the FAU China convoy Reunion Group, article FAU: http://www.fauchinaconvoy.org/index.php/site- map/articles This site contains information on WWII FAU and reconstruction and rehabilitation work ). In April 2013 the Inauguration of the Memorial to the Friends Ambulance Unit took place at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/16/rare-memorial-inspires-quakers-work and http://www.qsmt.org.uk/ The Friends’ Peace Testimony and Conscientious Objection (English) The Award speech for the 1947 award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the relief organisations Friends Service Council (London) and the American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia) and history of FSC: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1947/press.html and http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1947/friends-council-history.html Rhyfel Byd 1914-1918 a’r profiad Cymreig / Welsh experience of World War One 1914-1918 (in English) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/welshww1.a spx Pacifism (in English) http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/Heddychiaeth/index-e.htm WW1 and Wales recruitment (in English) http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/Recruitment-WW1/index-e.htm BBC 1 All Our Lives, ‘Welsh Conscientious Objectors’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gm0c7 Waldo Williams’ statement as a conscientious objector, to the Carmarthen tribunal, 12th February 1942 (in English), pp. 254-5 in Euros Bowen Waldo a Chrynwriaeth Y Traethodydd - Cyf. CXXVI (538-540) 1971 pp. 247ff, 254-5 Beyond the Friends Ambulance Unit … in two World Wars – see A. Tegla Davies, author of The Friends Ambulance Unit: the story of the FAU in the second world war 1939-1946 http://www.ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Friends/fau13.html A Tegla Davies, work in China: http://www.quaker.org.uk/friends-ambulance-unit-china-convoy-1941-46 Relief work with displaced persons, Christmas 1946: Christmas lecture by Dr Fiona Reid, University of South Wales http://profile.glam.ac.uk/christmas-lectures/2010/fiona-reid/ The Second World War and Waldo Williams’ poem the Peacemakers (in translation) http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/WW2/index-e.htm Article by David Cleaver, Conscientious objection in the Swansea area http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/ in Morgannwg Vol. 28 1984 . http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1940-07-04a.983.1 (on WWII) Other resources 'Wales for Peace' is a Wales-wide project part-funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and coordinated by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs. The aim of the project is to involve young people and community groups across Wales in discovering and sharing Wales' peace heritage. This may include looking at how your community was affected by war, or sharing information about the work of individuals or groups in your community who have worked for peace. Educational materials will be available, and there will be opportunities for your school / community to contribute to them too. For further information contact: [email protected] or [email protected]. Looking for records of conscientious objectors - The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for- person/conscientiousobjectors.htm Houseman’s pacifism and non-violence booklist, http://www.housmans.com/booklists/peace/pc01.php A Life On The Road Less Traveled: The Story Of Parry Jones as told to Dafydd Jones, Infinity, 2008, Paper 146pp. From the QuakerBooks website: http://www.quakerbooks.org/quaker- lives/60 (From the website above): Parry Jones grew up in Wales, becoming a conscientious objector in WW2. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit working in London during the Blitz, then in China for 4 years, and finally India for 2 years before coming to America. He was accepted at Swarthmore College, married, and started a family, afterwards working in Pakistan in the mid- 1950's before starting a career in teaching that lasted for 20 years. This book is his life story as told to his sons during 3 years of interviews, with countless revisions, and 2 years of editing. ---------------------------- Lily Tobias, Eunice Fleet (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics 1933, republished 1994), the second novel by Jewish internationalist Lily Tobias. It drew on her WW1 experiences aiding conscientious objectors in the Swansea and Cardiff areas (her brothers had been COs). The novel embraces the themes of hostility to pacifism, socialism, COs’ experiences and family relations. Theses online McMaster University, 1984, Andrew D. Kerr-Wilson, The Sword and the Light : Peace Testimony of the Friends, The Evolution of the British Society of 1914-1918 http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8120&context=opendissert ations University of Reading, 2002, summary: Margaret Glover Images of Peace in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, 2 volumes. PhD thesis http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/data/files/CPQS/Summaries/Margaret_Glover.pdf Peace matters today Calon (the newsletter for Friends in Wales), January 2012 http://www.quakersinwales.org.uk/pdf_files/calon/calon_jan_2012.pdf http://www.peacetaxseven.com/CDDay.html (Cardiff) The White Book of Carmarthen, from The Friend http://thefriend.org/article/the-white-book-of-carmarthen/ The Quaker Tapestry, peace panel: the panel on Milford Haven, includes quote from Waldo Williams in Welsh http://www.kendal-and-sedbergh-quakers.org.uk/page26a.html Texts not online Geraint H Jenkins ‘The Early Peace Testimony in Wales 1650-1699’ in Llafur: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History 4/2, 1985, pp. 10-19. Towards the Source Published by Meeting of Friends in Wales, 2014 Adnoddau (Cymraeg) Prosiect Cymru gyfan yw 'Cymru dros Heddwch' a ariennir yn rhannol gan Gronfa Dreftadaeth y Loteri ac a arweinir gan Ganolfan Materion Rhyngwladol Cymru. Nod y prosiect yw annog pobl ifanc a grwpiau cymunedol ledled Cymru i ddarganfod a rhannu treftadaeth heddwch Cymru. Gall hyn olygu edrych ar sut y cafodd eich cymuned ei heffeithio gan ryfel, neu rhannu gwybodaeth am waith unigolion a grwpiau yn eich cymuned sydd wedi gweithio dros heddwch. Bydd deunyddiau addysgol ar gael, a bydd cyfleon i'ch ysgol / cymuned gyfrannu atynt hefyd. Am wybodaeth bellach, cysylltwch â: [email protected] neu [email protected] Tua’r Tarddiad published by Cyfarfod y Cyfeillion yng Nghymru, 2014 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/Heddychiaeth/index-e.htm Gwynfor Evans, Heddychiaeth cristnogol yng Nghymru http://www.cymdeithasycymod.org.uk/llyfr-gwynfor.pdf Yr ymgyrch recriwtio: http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/Recruitment-WW1/index.htm Yr Ail Rhyfel Byd ac Y Tangnefeddwyr gan Waldo Williams http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Heddwch/WW2/index.htm Euros Bowen, Waldo a Chrynwriaeth, Y Traethodydd - Cyf. CXXVI (538-540) 1971 , 247-253 (ac yn yr un lle ‘Datganiad WW fel gwrthwynebydd cydwybodol o flaen y tribiwnlys yng Nghaerfyrddin, 12 Chwefror 1942’, 254-5, Saesneg). .