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Handbill - Conscription and Christianity

Printed handbill titled "Manifesto from Protestant Ministers 'Conscription and Christianity' "

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State Library of Victoria,

Riley and ephemera collection,

Political ephemera relating to Conscription, anti, 1916.

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This manifesto was printed in newspapers around Australia and issued separately as a handbill. It is one of the few arguments made publicly against conscription by Protestant ministers.

Victorian Congregational Minister Ernest H. Hope-Hume was forced to resign his post in Deepdene as a result of signing this manifesto. Alfred Rivett and Bernard Linden-Webb from NSW had already been forced to resign theirs because of their opposition to the war and conscription.

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Photograph - Send-off to the Brunswick Soldiers

Photograph - Brunswick Town Hall Honour Board

Memorial Plaque - Leonard William Telford

Poster - 'Australia has Promised Britain 50,000 More Men'

Labour Activists of Brunswick and Coburg

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Photograph - Frank Anstey

Photograph - John Curtin

Photograph - Frank Hyett

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The Trade Unions' Anti-conscription Campaign

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Handbill - 'The Blood Vote'

Cartoon - 'The Charge of the Would to God Brigade'

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The Women's Movement During the War

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Photograph - Vida Goldstein

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Handbill - Conscription and Woman's Loyalty

Photograph - 'Women's No Conscription Demonstration'

Bella Lavender - Brunswick Campaigner

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Photograph - Bella Lavender

Cartoon - Bella Lavender

Letter - Bella Lavender to Education Department

Photograph - Labor Women's Anti-conscription Committee

Religious Perspectives on Conscription

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Handbill - Conscription and Christianity

Handbill - Conscription Questions for Voters

Handbill - How Would Christ Vote?

The Catholic Church and Conscription

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Photograph - Daniel Mannix

Article - Cause of the War

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Cartoon - Australian Workman's Burden

Brunswick and Coburg During the Campaigns

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Article - No Anti-conscription Meetings in Brunswick

Handbill - Public Meeting Against Conscription

Advertisement - Recruitment Meeting

Article - Remarkably Quiet Day

The Two Referendums

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Handbill - Vote Thus Against Conscription

Article - Military Service Referendum Poll

Article - Conscription. Mr Hughes in Queensland

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The Soldiers' Votes

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Diary - Claude Ewart

Photograph - Jack and Bert Grinton

Handbill - Returned Soldiers' No Conscription League Manifesto

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Consequences for the Campaigners

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Inscription - Police Just Raided

Article - 'Failure to Enrol'

Letter - Adela Pankhurst to Sallie Walsh

Article - 'Serenading Miss Pankhurst'

A Legacy of Peace Activism in Brunswick and Coburg

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Pamphlet - Against Conscription

Photograph - Free John Zarb

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