The Peace Museum has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help build The Peace Museum of the Future. As part of the campaign 20 ambassadors have chosen an object from our collection to talk about its importance in the history of peace and why it is significant to them. Chris Clayton from the Working Class Movement […]

The Peace Museum has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help build The Peace Museum of the Future. As part of the campaign 20 ambassadors have chosen an object from our collection to talk about its importance in the history of peace and why it is significant to them. Our Chair of Trustees, Dr Clive Barrett […]

Thinking about nuclear war, most of us imagines global-scale international conflicts, with impact reaching out over thousands of kilometres. Such wide scope of atomic dangers does not mean that nothing can be done to stop them at the local level. On November 5th, Manchester is celebrating the 40th anniversary of becoming the first in the UK […]

Hi-tech shiny space bases, lasers cutting through darkness of vain, easy-to-use blasters going ahead any real warfare technology? To most of us, these images of space wars evoke memories of a peaceful childhood guided by brave, honourable space heroes looking at us from cinema screens and movie posters of teenagers’ bedrooms. In real life, however, […]

On the 7th May, to coincide with VE Day, The Peace Museum was supposed to open a new exhibition funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Bombs…Away! will explore the impact of civilian bombing against civilians during World War Two and how the peace movement responded to it. Whilst we have had to postpone the exhibition for […]

This year to mark International Conscientious Objector Day, our admin and education assistant Rosie has written the following blog sharing the stories of pacifists William and Arthur Raistrick, both from Bradford.  Conscientious Objector (CO) Day, 15TH of May, is an important time within the peace movement. The day was first established in 1985 to remember […]

Special Blog: #MuseumFromHome For #MuseumFromHome Day which takes place on Thursday 30th April 2020, we thought we would bring a special blog written by our intern Emilia Bazydlo giving an insight into what it’s like to work at The Peace Museum. “My name is Emilia Bazydlo, I study History of Art at University of Leeds, and […]

Our placement student Emilia Bazydlo from University of Leeds has written the following post about just one of the groundbreaking moments in the history of peace activism to occur at the iconic Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.  On this day 37 years ago, on 1st of April 1983, 70,000 peace demonstrators formed a human chain of 14 […]

Born in December 1893, Vera Brittain was a feminist, nurse, author, and a figurehead of the pacifist movement in the early-twentieth century. Despite enjoying a comfortable childhood as the daughter of paper mill owners Thomas Brittain and Edith Brittain, her halcyon days were to come to an abrupt end at the age of 20. It […]

This year to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Emilia Bazydlo, who is with us on placement from the University of Leeds, takes a closer look at our latest exhibition Eye As Witness: Recording the Holocaust and the amazing story of a featured photographer, Henryk Ross.  The 27th January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi […]