England Arise!

The uplifting and powerful story of the young men and women of a northern town who believed passionately in a better world, inspired by the revolutionary art, music and literature of the times, they refuse to take arms against their fellow workers and fight in the First World War. They suffered prison and brutality for their conscientious objection. Yet the community supported them so much that it soon became known as a ‘hotbed of pacifism’!

Inspired by Comrades In Conscience, by Cyril Pearce, drawing on first hand source material to present an alternative story of political opposition to the First World War.