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Download free left alice6/10/2023 ![]() In 1916, during the First World War, Alice Wheeldon was living with her family in Derby, England. ![]() Women and War: from the series ‘ Beyond Commemoration: Community, Collaboration and Legacies of the First World War’ All these strands intersect in the events that led to her conviction and imprisonment in 1917, and in the consequences of the trial, which scattered the Wheeldon family across the globe.” “Alice Wheeldon’s is the history of a woman, of a family, of a neighbourhood, and of a wider network of people who sought to make the world a better place through women’s rights, pacifism and then opposition to conscription. The story of the trial of Alice Wheeldon and her family – a miscarriage of justice perpetrated in 1917 at London’s Old Bailey
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