League of Nations

Lymm Grammar School

Plays to promote the League of Nations – an active LNU Junior Branch...

Foundation of the League of Nations 1920

A new means of conducting international affairs...

Article in LNU newspaper, ‘Headway,’ Dec 1927 LSE Library, Archive ref: JX1975.A1.

League of Nations Union and the Military

League meetings and appeals...

League of Nations Building, Geneva (now United Nations Building)

League of Nations Union Summer School

International youth gatherings...

Artist’s impression of the School Courtesy of Oldham Hulme Grammar School Archive

Hulme Grammar School for Girls

Very active League of Nations society...

Oldham War Memorial Tim Green from Bradford

Oldham Peace Week 1938

Events to promote peace...

Town Hall, High Bentham © Janet Nelson

Helen Byles Ford (1883-1969)

Quaker peace activist for Northern Friends Peace Board...

Frederick and Elaine Whelen, c.1902 LSE Library, Archive ref: SHAW PHOTOGRAPHS/1/53/7213 ©National Trust Images www.nationaltrust.org.uk

(John) Frederick L. Whelen (1867-1955)

Prolific lecturer and peace campaigner...

Fleetwood Grammar School Logbook Courtesy of Lancashire Archives, Archive ref: SMFL 1/1

Fleetwood Grammar School

League of Nations lectures...

King William’s College Courtesy of King William’s College

Frank Walters, Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations and Old Barrovian

Letter to pupils about the status of the League of Nations 1939...