Laying the Temple’s Foundation Stone – 8th April 1937

The foundation stone for Wales’ Temple of Peace was laid by Viscount Halifax, Lord Privy Seal and Deputy Foreign Secretary, on Thursday, 8th April 1937. He had been widely regarded as a leading light among interwar peace advocates and champion of the League of Nations; and would go on to play a […]

Postcards from a Peace Mission: #OnThisDay 100 years ago – “Gwilym’s Diary” from the 1925 Welsh Churches Peace Appeal to America

#OnThisDay #OTD 100 years ago – Wed 25 Nov 1925 – a transatlantic liner called the ‘SS George Washington’ set sail from Southampton carrying a remarkable Peace Appeal from the Churches of Wales to America, conveyed by visionary Welsh peacebuilder the Rev Gwilym Davies. Over the next 6 weeks from […]

Global Climate Justice Cymru – Nov 2025 Week of Action for COP30, and Manifesto for 2026 Elections

View Climate Cymru November Actions brief As Wales prepares for the 2026 Senedd elections, Global Climate Justice Cymru calls for policies that root climate action in fairness, solidarity, and justice, both here in Wales and globally. This week, we have seen the unstoppable power of global movements around the world… […]

Wales for Peace in Gaza: Ceasefire a fragile moment for Hope

October 2025 – Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Appeal The ceasefire agreement in Gaza provides desperately needed hope and relief for so many people whose lives have been devastated by conflict. DEC charities and their local partners are scaling up their work in Gaza again after months of extraordinary challenges delivering […]

Hibakusha Portrait Exhibition comes to Cardiff: A Powerful Call to Peace

Cardiff, UK – 23rd October 2025 – 80,000 Voices is proud to announce a landmark exhibition of lenticular portraits of hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hosted at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre from October 24th to November 30th, 2025. This moving exhibition, first shown […]

Wales Uniting Nations: Building a Better World after World War 2

Updated to mark #UN80, the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations in October 2025. 24 October every year is United Nations Day, with activities worldwide appearing on Twitter using the hashtags #UNDay #UNDay2024. This feature spotlights some of the connections between Wales and the story of the UN. 24 October […]

Young peacemakers gather in Cardiff to celebrate peace in schools

Reproduced from Quakers UK, with many thanks Almost 100 young peer mediators from across South Wales came together in Cardiff Bay on 15 October to celebrate their shared commitment to resolving conflict peacefully. The event, ‘Celebrating the Peacemakers of the Future | Dathlu Heddychwyr y Dyfodol’, was the first children’s […]

The Welsh Worker’s Peace Appeal Memorial of 1928 to the ILO (International Labour Organisation), Geneva

This article is under development over Autumn 2025, having recently digitised archival materials from the 1929 ILO Workers Memorial campaign which will be available here shortly. In 1929, following the momentum from previous Peace Memorial Campaigns led by Women of Wales over 1923-4, and Churches of Wales over 1925-6, over […]

‘Capturing the Castles for Peace!’ How Wales marked the 10th Anniversary of the League of Nations, 1930

One of the many ‘hidden histories’ as yet unexplored among the Temple Archives of the Welsh League of Nations Union – many of which are held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth – is the fascinating account of the WLNU’s 10th Anniversary campaign, when peace campaigners ‘stormed the […]