‘The resounding importance of having a female generation to both honour and draw inspiration from’.

The first Women’s Peace Crusade march took place in Glasgow on 23 July 1916 .

The demonstrators marched from George Square to Glasgow Green, drawing crowds of thousands.

Helen Crawfurd  – a working-class feminist and socialist who had played a significant role in the famous Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915 – had been galvanised into organising the protest by a letter in the ‘Labour Leader’ complaining that ‘the Socialist women of Britain’ had not mounted one public demonstration against World War I’s ‘wholesale slaughter of our menfolk’.