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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section (WILPF)
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Mary Alys interviewed by Lorraine Mirham, 2013

This sub-series contains recordings and transcripts of the interview. Mary Alys was the longest-serving member of WILPF UK until 2013, when she passed away. She left behind recordings of her time and experiences at WILPF. These were recorded during the last weeks of her life. She had kidney cancer, diagnosed in August 2012. She had attended the WILPF Congress in Costa Rica in July 2011 as the UK delegation lead, and was previously an International Board member for the UK serving, on and off, on the UK WILPF Executive. She died on 18th May 2013 after joining WILPF, in Worthing, Sussex on 24th May 1982.

The interviewer, Lorraine Mirham, was a Leicester WILPF member, and previously a Worthing member during the 1980s.

Papers relating to Margaret Turner in South Africa

Papers related to interview narrative - interview part 1 [00:44:49] - as follows:
Photograph of an International Observer Service Certificate issued to Margaret Turner by the National Electoral Observer Network - South Africa 27-29 April 1994;
Photograph of an article by Margaret Turner 'Elections in South Africa May 1994' (2 pages).

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section (WILPF)

  • UKLSE-AS1WF01
  • Collection
  • 2013-2015

The collection includes the born-digital records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section (WILPF).

The first series of records consists of oral histories recorded as part of a project called 'These Dangerous Women', to mark the 100th anniversary of WILPF.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

'These Dangerous Women' Oral History Project

The series contains the recordings of interviews of 8 members of WILPF and related documents. The interviews were conducted between 2013 and 2015, as part of a part of the 'These Dangerous Women' community heritage project to mark the centenary of the formation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Funded by the National Lottery Heritage and run by Clapham Film Unit and WILPF, the project's aims were to celebrate and commemorate the women who tried to stop World War I and founded the organisation. For more information, visit the WILPF UK website.

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