Rob Edwards and guest archivist Carys Lewis discuss The
Swords into Ploughshares
Project at the archive of the London School of Economics. Its current
project is to catalogue papers from the Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, London
Union. . Plus two pieces of
original sound art made specially for the show. One is based on the
women’s peace organisation holdings at the archive and is a remote
collaboration between Jude Cowan Montague and Steve Layton, an American
composer. The other is a response to the recent floods in the UK and was
recorded by Matt Armstrong and Jude Cowan Montague in their home studio
in South East London.
The following extract is from the Swords into Ploughshares blog by Carys Lewis.
WILPF was formed in 1915 when over a 1000 women representing
European and North American countries met in The Hague to protest
against the war raging across Europe. Today WILPF has active members
across the world who share a vision for peace by non-violent means and
promote justice for all.
Delegates of the first WILPF meeting in The Hague, 1915
LSE Library received the first deposit of WILPF papers in 1973 and
the organisation has continued to add to the records, the most recent
deposit being made in 2012. In 2009 WILPF material which had been
deposited at The Women’s Library was transferred to LSE re-uniting the
archive.
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