League of Nations

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...

Map of LNU branches in the Lancaster LNU District Council area (with some others) © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District Council

Connecting the Lancaster LNU branches together ...

Melling Institute, opened in 1922 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Melling Branch

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

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

Wray with Botton National School (now Wray Endowed School) and the League of Nations

Developing awareness of the international peace movement in a rural school between the wars...

Wray Village Institute Public meetings have been held here since 1923 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Wray Branch

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

School in the North Lancashire countryside in the early 20th century Courtesy of Bleasdale Archive Collection, Bleasdale Parish Hall, Bleasdale PR3 1UY

Read Congregational School and the League of Nation

Developing awareness of the international peace movement in a rural school between the wars...

Priest Hutton C. of E. School © Janet Nelson

Priest Hutton C. of E. School and the League of Nations

The development of awareness of the international peace movement in a rural elementary school between the wars...

Muriel Dowbiggin and husband Ernest outside their home on Borrowdale Road, Lancaster, with teachers and the Lancaster Band of Hope and Temperance Union Lancaster Guardian, 25 Aug 1933

Lancaster LNU: Muriel Dowbiggin 1891-1963 (Part I)

Suffragist and peace activist, blazing a trail as the female Hon. Secretary of Lancaster Branch of the League of Nations Union...

From April 1922, public meetings at Glasson Dock would have been held in the Memorial Hall, now restored © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Meetings at Glasson Dock

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