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´Throughout Britain and throughout Europe, the women must win, nay, they will win and say: No More War! (Workers ´Dreadnought, July 1916) This book restores largely forgotten, provincial women into the narrative of resistance to the First World War.The experience of maintaining unpopular dissent, in a time of total war, was personally and politically transformative for many women activists. The War was significant in sharpening and extending their political activism: however they understood their own activism in different ways, translating pacifist or political critiques of militarism into specific campaign membership. However by the end of the War anti-war activists from a range of suffrage, socialist and pacifist campaigns were working together for a negotiated peace. Their individual and collective stories reveal an extensive network of women who were involved in anti-war activism across Britain between 1914-1918.

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Alison Ronan is a Manchester-based feminist historian with a background in youth and community work and conflict resolution. Her interest is in the history of dissent and resistance in the early twentieth century with a particular focus on NW England and in creating alternative narratives of WW1.

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