Comrades in Conscience: The Story of an English Community's Opposition to the Great War

Comrades in Conscience is a groundbreaking study of opposition to the First World War in one locality - Huddersfield - where a unique consensus of Nonconformist Liberals and a vigourous labour and socialist movement earned it the reputation of being 'a hotbed of pacifism'. Using local sources, including the weekly socialist newspaper The Worker, the records of anti-consciption organisations, as well as the testimonies of conscientious objectors themselves, Cyril Pearce portrays a community largely unenthusiastic about the war and tolerant of those who resisted it, and goes on to question widely-held assumptions about the war's popularity.