Timeline: the Welsh Women’s Peace Tour of America, 1924
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‘Annie’s Diary’ offers a very personal insight into the experience of this remarkable campaign, as recorded by delegation leader Annie Hughes-Griffiths over the course of 2 months in eary 1924. 100 years later, over February – March 2025, WCIA in Wales with Heddwch Nain researchers in America worked together to research and retrace the steps of the peacemakers in real time, curating weekly social media postings #OnThisDay 100 years later in the style of “What would they have tweeted?” This timeline spotlights the week to week accounts from their 2-month ‘Peace Tour of America’ – a rich learning resource.
2 February 1924
Sendoff from the UK
Feb 2 1924 – Annie starts her diary, recording their great 'sendoff' from London Euston on the boat train to Liverpool.
Week 1: 2-11 February 1924
Week1 – The Transatlantic Voyage
They boarded the White Star Line’s ‘RMS Cedric’ at Liverpool Docks for the 9-day Transatlantic voyage to New York
Week 3 – 19 February 1924
Presenting the Memorial to the Women of America
21 February 1924
Week 3.5 – to Washington and the White House
Where they presented a copy of the Memorial to President Calvin Coolidge, "to be placed in the Smithsonian for fuyure generations."
Week 5, 1 March 1924 – St David’s Day
Westwards on the Union Pacific: the Peace Tour to Salt Lake City & Utah
Week 6 – 6th-12th March 1924
Week 6 – The Peace Tour reaches San Francisco & the 'Wild West' States
Week 7, 12-17th March 1924
Week 7 – Returning Eastwards via the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls
Week 8, 18th-21st March
Week 8 – Utica, New York State and a Wedding Finale
Week 9 – 22nd March
Homewards Voyage on the RMS Olympic, New York to Southampton
Week 10, March 27th 1924
Week 10: The Last Post? What these formidable women did next
