Inspired by the Peace News “The World Is My Country” exhibition — a visual celebration of the people and movements that opposed the first world war. In April 1918 the police destroyed the machinery belonging to the printer Samuel Street who had been printing the Tribunal, the newspaper of the No Conscription Fellowship. A group of women printed and distributed the paper in secret right up to January 1920, much to the dismay of the authorities!
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Here we are again we stand for liberty
and the women worked so the ink of the press ran free.
Here we are again we stand for liberty
and the words of peace were out for all to see
- We have done for you this time, they said,
that will be the end of that
and they thought they’d smashed the paper dead
so the words of peace could not be read
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- So the women bought some paper and type,
a hand press and some ink
and they hid their tools right out of sight
and ran that press both day and night
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- The bobbies saw them come and go
with prams and mother’s things
but they never thought that there below
it was women who ran the printing show
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4fnW53DxM
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