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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
League of Nations Union
The League of Nations Union (‘LNU’) came to be in November 1918 through the conglomeration of the Leagues of Free Nations Association and the League of Nations society. It represents a voluntary organisation with British origins that intended to provoke mass support for the League of Nations and promote world peace and co-operation. In a similar manner to the League itself, the LNU was willing to countenance military intervention in order to maintain international law and world peace. Membership peaked in Britain, with over 400,000 members in 1931 and also had significant membership in France.[1]