Author: Janet Nelson

League of Nations Union, League of Nations, Education, Youth, Arts/Literature, Lancaster LNU District Council

Lancaster LNU: Teachers, Schools and Peace Education

How Lancaster and District LNUs helped promote the League of Nations in schools...

The Lancaster LNU used the Friends’ Hall in Fenton Street for educational purposes © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: Questions of the Quality in Education about the League

Combatting dullness...

Borrowdale Road, Lancaster, where J. H. Dalton gave a talk on his visit to the League of Nations at Geneva © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: League Conferences

Members becoming more informed about League of Nations’ work and aims in Lancaster...

Scorton, Nether Wyresdale, one of the mill and farming villages of Wyresdale © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Wyresdale Sub-Branch

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...

Main Street, Warton © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Meeting at Warton, near Lancaster

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside...

Gaskell Memorial Hall, Silverdale, meeting place of the Silverdale branch of the LNU in use by 1932

Lancaster LNU District: Silverdale Branch

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Tunstall, a focal point in a scattered parish. The LNU may have met in the village Reading Room. © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Tunstall Branch

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...

Green Street Methodist Church, the largest Methodist Church in Morecambe. Many of the clergy who supported the LNU were nonconformists. © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Morecambe Branch

Taking the League of Nations to Morecambe...

Burton-in-Lonsdale Sunday School Meeting place of the Burton-in-Lonsdale LNU, 1935-1939 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Burton-in-Lonsdale Branch (1935-1939)

A small branch’s first year...

Melling Institute, opened in 1922 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Melling Branch

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...