RebeccaWynter and Ben PinkDandelion, eds. A Quaker Conscientious Objector: Wilfrid Littleboy’s Prison Letters, 1917–1919. Bath: Handheld Press, 2020.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Conscientious Objector

Medical Magistrates and the Conscientious Objector

BMJ ◽  
1898 ◽  
Vol 2 (1974) ◽  
pp. 1371-1371
Author(s):  
F. P. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Conscientious Objector

The Conscientious Objector and the Law

1943 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Arthur Garfield Hays ◽  
Julien Cornell
Keyword(s):  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
The Law

Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Guy Woodward
Keyword(s):  
British Army ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
Easter Rising ◽  
Irish Republicanism

In October 1914, the English writer and publisher Douglas Goldring was invalided out of the British Army. By 1916, he had become a conscientious objector and moved to Ireland, where he lived for the next two years, witnessing the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Illuminating connections between the pacifist movement in Britain and Irish Republicanism, his writings of this period – including two Irish travelogues and a propagandist semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, The Fortune (1917) – disclose transnational and transcultural networks of resistance and dissidence, and show how the Rising and its aftermath helped to radicalise pacifist writers in London.

On being a conscientious objector to military service in 1959

BMJ ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 326 (7388) ◽  
pp. 557-557
Author(s):  
P. Bruggen
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Conscientious Objector

“The Most Important Human Salvage Operation in the History of Our Country”

Rough Draft ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 128-156
Author(s):  
Amy J. Rutenberg
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Military Service ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Minority Men

Chapter six argues that in working to avoid the draft, men during the Vietnam War did not behave terribly differently from men during World War II or the Korean War. Rather, it was the context of their actions that changed. This chapter affirms that the historical conditions of the Vietnam War, particularly the advent of draft counseling, made it easier for men to engage in draft avoidance behavior. But it also argues that the military manpower policies of the previous decades influenced their choices. Because policies and practices privileged men with the resources to attend college, gain admittance to the National Guard or Reserves, find sympathetic doctors, or write reasoned belief statements in conscientious objector applications, white, middle-class men were the most successful at avoiding the draft. For them, military service was a decision more than a fait accompli. Working-class and minority men had fewer tools for draft avoidance.

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