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 […]
Read more#OTD 103 years ago, over Whitsun Weekend culminating 25 May 1920, WCIA’s predecessor the Welsh League of Nations Union held their first public meeting in Llandrindod Wells (image); and #OTD 101 years on from Whitsun 1922, the organisation formally became came into existence as an independent body from the British […]
Read moreThis Easter marks a ‘Centenary’ for WCIA – as we celebrate the founding after World War One of our predecessor body, the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU), which formally came into being over the Easter Weekend of 21-22 April 1922. […]
Read moreA treasure from Wales’ Peace Heritage is to make the journey from Washington to Wales, to mark the centenary next year of the 1923 Welsh Women’s Peace Appeal to America – a campaign petition signed by 390,296 women across Wales. Might your gran be among them? […]
Read more18 May 2022 marks the centenary of Wales’ Youth Message of Peace & Goodwill, first broadcast in 1922. […]
Read more#OTD #OnThisDay 100 years ago, 29 January 1922, the campaigns of the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) were officially kickstarted at a meeting in Shrewsbury – where philanthropist and founding patron David Davies of Llandinam unexpectedly announced that he would “endow the Welsh movement with a sum.. that would […]
Read moreOver 2022, WCIA will be producing regular ‘Peace100’ features on significant Peace Heritage anniversaries – ‘Hidden Histories’ from the archives of the Temple of Peace and beyond. 10th January, On This Day (#OTD): The League of Nations came into being in Paris, 10 January 1920 The League of Nations, the […]
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