ABSTRACT
The first English-speaking peace societies arose directly after the Napoleonic Wars, even though governments then regarded war, or the threat of war, as a normal right of policy-making. An article by Bertram Pickard on ‘Friends and the Organisation of Peace’, published in The Friend for March 10, 1961, described the century and a half since 1815 as divided, as though by a great watershed, by the First World War and the League of Nations. A number of conspicuous Quakers contributed their thinking to the peace testimony of the nineteenth century. By 1835 peace organizations had arisen in most of the States, and The Calumet had given way to The Advocate of Peace as the organ of the American Peace Society. The responsibility for drawing dedicated Christians together therefore fell mainly upon the minority British peace movement, combined with several leading Churchmen and Quakers, and a few publicists in both Britain and Germany.
