People Power: Fighting for Peace
Fascinating exhibition at the Imperial War Museum looking at the history of the peace movement and its protests. I went along thinking this would be quite a dry show and just the history of CND but in fact it went back to the First World War and told the story though to the Iraq protests. Throughout the show it told fascinating stories and many of these were illustrated with personal archives. It also made nice use of the museum’s art collection. I loved the First World War section. It was nice to see the Bloomsbury Group mentioned and I was touched to see a white feather with accompanying anonymous letter. I was entranced by the story of Rachel Wilson and Paul Cadbury who were both Quakers serving in the Friends’ Ambulance Unit who met during the war and married after it. There was a very similar story from the same unit in the Second World War. I have to mention the medical case sheet on Siegfried Sassoon by Rivers, one for Pat Barker fans. The section on Hiroshima ...