With Armistice Day being marked across Europe and the World, we head to Christchurch where the period before, during and after New Zealand’s involvement in World War I the city became a flashpoint for pro- and anti-war sentiment.
In her book ‘I Don’t Believe in Murder’: Standing up for peace in World War I Canterbury, local writer and historian Margaret Lovell-Smith tells the stories of the people who made Christchurch the leading city in the peace movement, and of the men who refused to fight, enduring imprisonment, hardships and loss of civil rights.
Photo: University of Canterbury
