THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX
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THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX |
| WILLIAM GRIFFITHS 1880 - |
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| William Griffiths was one of very few Absolutist Conscientious Objectors who took part in what became known as the “Wakefield Experiment”. By 1918 the number of stubborn and committed Absolutist COs like William who had been locked away as political prisoners for two years had reached an unacceptable number. The Home Office tried to resolve this problem by gathering a small number of COs at Wakefield prison, where they were offered better conditions in exchange for compromising their principles and accepting workhouse-style employment. Instead, William, alongside the other Absolutists at Wakefield drew up what would become a famous Manifesto of their Position. Tens of thousands of copies were made and it helped to keep Conscientious Objection and the conditions of COs a political issue until the end of the war.
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