The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the coming of the Second World War

With the conference taking place at LSE, it seemed only proper that a paper was presented based on a collection held by LSE Archives and Special Collections. The collection in question is the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. This had previously been split between LSE and the Women’s Library until the collection was transferred fully to LSE in 2008. Since then, as some of you may be aware, the Women’s Library has also transferred to LSE and a new reading room built. The WILPF collection has now been fully catalogued as part of the Swords into Ploughshares project, which also saw the records of the London region of the Fellowship of Reconciliation catalogued