An exhibition will open this Thursday evening at Llangollen Museum about the Welsh Women's Peace Petition.
An all-female band of bell-ringers
is hoping to ring a quarter-peal - about 50 minutes continuous ringing - at St
Collen's at 5.30pm the same evening to celebrate the exhibition, the petition
and the work of the local volunteers who have carried out the research into
local signatories and put the exhibition together.
In 1923, the horrors of WW1 having galvanised a generation
against conflict, women of Wales organised an unprecedented campaign for world
peace.
A total of 390,296 women signed a memorial petition through the Welsh League of Nations Union – said to have been seven miles long – calling for America to join and lead the new League of Nations and 2023 marked the centenary of the campaign.
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