PN worker Emily Johns is interviewed in a new 30-minute documentary about a First World War war resister who sheltered men avoiding conscription.
War on Lies: The Alice Wheeldon Campaign was made by young filmmaker Elizabeth McGlynn as part of her master’s degree at Birmingham university.
Alice Wheeldon, her daughter Winnie Mason and her son-in-law Alf Mason were jailed in 1917 on trumped-up charges of conspiring to shoot the prime minister, David Lloyd George with a poison dart.
Emily made a poster, ‘Alice Wheeldon was a prophet’, as part of the PN exhibition and book, The World is My Country: a visual celebration of the people and movements that opposed the First World War.
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theworldismycountry.info
Topics: Activist history, First World War