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Conscientious Objectors: How the Richmond 16 pioneered our right to choose
Kevin Booth, explores how the actions of conscientious objectors during the First World War shaped our right to choice and conscience.
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RICHMOND CASTLE AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
We reveal how Richmond Castle became a base for the northern companies of the Non Combatant Corps – a military unit for men who refused to serve during the First World War – and how you can find out more about their story at the castle’s new museum.
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Conscription and Conscience in WWI
How conscription came about, what happened to the men who applied for exemption, and the legacy of the WWI conscientious objectors.
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First World War Conscientious Objectors at Richmond Castle
How 16 conscientious objectors detained at Richmond Castle during the First World War were taken to France, and sentenced to death – a sentence commuted to ten years’ hard labour – for refusing to obey orders.
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The current garden at Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire was created in 2000, and includes the Richmond Castle Sixteen.
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Conscientious Objectors’ Stories
The stories of some of the conscientious objectors held in the cell block at Richmond Castle in 1916 for refusing to take part in the war effort, including many of the ‘Richmond Sixteen’.
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For over 100 years, Annie Wainwright’s pencil-drawn face has looked out from the walls of a military cell at Richmond Castle. Read about the woman portrayed in the best-known and most reproduced of all 2,300 graffiti in the building.