University Archives
International Peace Campaign
This campaign emerged in early 1936, following the Peace Ballot organised in Britain by Dame Adelaide Livingstone. The IPC aimed to co-ordinate the work of existing pacifist organisations and other groups opposed to war, and campaigned in support of the League of Nations. After the outbreak of war, the campaign had difficulty sustaining its activities and was wound up in early 1941.
Commander Edgar Young was an early member of the British National Committee and attended the first IPC gathering, the World Peace Congress, in Brussels in September 1936. His papers include a substantial collection of reports, discussion documents, speeches, resolutions and lists of delegates for the congress itself and for the International Agrarian Conference, which ran concurrently. A large proportion of this material is in French. [DYO/10] The papers of Canon Stanley Evans, another British member, include minutes of the British National Committee, and reports of the first British National Congress in October 1937 and of the 'Save China - Save peace' Conference in February 1938. [DEV/1/5 & 1/10]