Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (November 1, 1888 - 1988) was a British anti-war activist and politician. November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...

Brockway was born in Calcutta, India which was at that time under British Imperial rule. This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... Imperial is a term that is used to describe something that relates to an Empire, Emperor, or the concept of Imperialism. ...

While attending the School for the Sons of Missionaries (Blackheath, London, England; now Eltham College) from 1897-1905 he discovered an interest in politics. Blackheath is a place in London, divided between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Eltham College is an independent school situated in Mottingham in south-east London. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

After leaving school he worked as a journalist for a variety of papers and journals including The Quiver and the Daily News and the Christian Commonwealth. It was while working at this last paper that he had the opportunity to meet and interview many of the radical left-wing thinkers of his time. Among others, he interviewed such notables as H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ...

Brockway was a member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and a regular visitor to the Fabian Society. The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning in the late 19th century and then up to World War I. The society laid many of the foundations of the Labour Party in this time-period and is still in existence...

He was appointed editor of the Labour Leader (the newspaper of the ILP, later called the New Leader) and was, by 1913 a committed pacifist. He opposed British involvement in the First World War and was outspoken in his views about the conflict through his position as editor of the Labour Leader. The offices of the Labour Leader were raided in August 1915 and Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material. He pleaded not guilty to this charge and won his case in court. The New Leader is a political magazine begun in 1935 and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. ... Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Pacifist may mean: an advocate of pacifism. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1916 Brockway was again arrested, this time for distributing anti-conscription leaflets. Brockway was fined for this, and after refusing to pay the fine, was sent to Pentonville Prison for two months. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Pentonville is an area of London in the borough of Islington, around the Pentonville Road. ...

Shortly after his release Brockway was arrested for a third time for his refusal to be conscripted. Considered a traitor under the Military Services Act Brockway was imprisoned in the Tower of London, in a dungeon under Chester Castle and finally in Walton Prison, Liverpool. In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ... The Tower of London, seen from the river, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ... Chester Castle was built in 1069 by William the Conqueror in Chester, Cheshire. ... Places in the United Kingdom Walton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Walton, Cumbria Walton, Derbyshire Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex Walton, Leicestershire Walton, Merseyside Walton, Milton Keynes Walton, Peterborough Walton, Powys Walton, Somerset Walton, Staffordshire Walton, Suffolk Walton-on-Thames, Surrey Walton, Telford Walton, Warrington Walton, Warwickshire Walton, West Yorkshire Places in the... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ...

Following his release from prison in 1919 Brockway became an active member of the India League which advocated Indian independence. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1929 Brockway successfully stood for the House of Commons seat of East Leyton as a British Labour Party candidate. He polled 11,111 votes, and immediately after the election, the Liberal candidate announced that Brockway had converted him to socialism. In 1931 Brockway lost his seat and the following year he disaffiliated from the British Labour Party along with the rest of the ILP. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... Leyton is a place in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, situated on the Prime Meridian and north of the River Thames. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

With the rise of Fascism in mainland Europe Brockway began to believe that it may be necessary to fight in order to preserve the peace in the long run. Despite his strong pacifist beliefs he began assisting with the recruitment of British volunteers to go to fight Francisco Franco in Spain through the ILP Contingent. Among those who went to Spain to fight fascism was Eric Blair (better known as George Orwell) and it is known that Brockway wrote a letter of recommendation for Eric Blair to present to the ILP representatives in Barcelona, Spain. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was Head of State of Spain from 1936 until his death in 1975. ... The British Independent Labour Party sent a small contingent to fight in the Spanish Civil War. ... George Orwell George Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903–21 January 1950). ... George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author. ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...

Following the Spanish Civil War Brockway advocated public understanding of the conflict. He wrote a number of articles about the conflict and was influential in getting George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia published. History of Spain series Prehistoric Spain Roman Spain Muslim Conquest of Iberia Timeline of Muslim Occupation Medieval Spain Age of Reconquest Age of Expansion Age of Enlightenment Reaction and Revolution First Spanish Republic The Restoration Second Spanish Republic Spanish Civil War The Dictatorship Modern Spain Topics Economic History Military History... Homage to Catalonia book cover Homage to Catalonia is George Orwells personal account of the Spanish Civil War, written in the first person. ...

Following the Second World War Brockway reaffirmed his belief in pacifism and rejoined the British Labour Party. In 1950 he won the House of Commons seat of Eton & Slough. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Eton is a town in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge. ... Slough (pronounced ) is a town and unitary authority in the county of Berkshire in the south of England. ...

Brockway strongly opposed the use or possession of nuclear weapons by any nation and was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ...

Brockway very narrowly lost his seat in the House of Commons at the 1964 election, despite the national swing to Labour at that election, possibly because his strongly left-wing views upset many of his constituents. Brockway subsequently accepted a life peerage and took up a seat in the House of Lords. 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

Brockway continued to campaign for world peace and was for several years the chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom. Other important posts held by Brockway include the Presidency of the British Council for Peace in Vietnam and the chairmanship of the World Disarmament Campaign.

His life and legacy are celebrated in his old constituency of Slough with the now annual FennerFest, a community arts and culture festival. Slough (pronounced ) is a town and unitary authority in the county of Berkshire in the south of England. ...

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