Topical Budget: Pacifists Routed At Brotherhood Church, Hackney (1917)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1917 0:36
Summary: Windows are smashed, doors broken and blows exchanged, as a violent mob attacks a pacifist meeting held inside a Hackney church.
Title number: 19870
LSA ID: LSA/26314
Description: This offers terrifying evidence of the hatred towards pacifists during the First World War. A large mob smashes windows and kicks in doors of a church in Hackney, before they hurl objects at those sheltering inside. The victims are pacifists – and the caption celebrates the aggressors as the ‘forces of loyalty and patriotism’. As the violence unfolds, a policeman studiously looks the other way.
Further information: The Brotherhood Church were a Christian sect with origins in the Quakers
Keywords: Church; Pacifists; First World War; mob
Locations: Kingsland, Hackney
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