File:British Author's Declaration.png

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English: This higher quality scan was performed by Graduate student researchers at the University of Oxford and volunteers at JISC as part of the efforts of the Centenary of World War One.

The names listed on this declaration are:

  • William Archer
  • H. Granville Barker
  • Sir James Matthew Barrie
  • Hilaire Belloc
  • Arnold Bennett
  • Arthur Christopher Benson
  • Edward Frederic Benson
  • Very Rev. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
  • Lawrence Binyon
  • Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Robert Bridges
  • Hall Caine
  • R. C. Carton
  • Charles Haddon Chambers
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Hubert Henry Davies
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • John Galsworthy
  • Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey)
  • Sir Henry Rider Haggard
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Jane Ellen Harrison
  • Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope)
  • Maurice Hewlett
  • Robert Hichens
  • Jerome K. Jerome
  • Henry Arthur Jones
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • William J. Locke
  • Edward Verrall Lucas
  • John William Mackail
  • John Masefield
  • Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
  • Gilbert Murray
  • Henry Newbolt
  • Barry Pain
  • Sir Gilbert Parker
  • Eden Phillpotts
  • Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Sir Owen Seaman
  • George R. Sims
  • May Sinclair
  • Flora Annie Steel
  • Alfred Sutro
  • George Macaulay Trevelyan
  • Rt. Hon. George Otto Trevelyan
  • Humphry Ward
  • Mary A. Ward
  • H.G. Wells
  • Margaret L. Woods
  • Israel Zangwill
Date October 18, 1914
Source https://web.archive.org/web/20141101215815/https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/unconventionalsoldiers/propaganda-the-authors-declaration/
Author New York Times

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After having formed the Propaganda Bureau, more commonly known as Wellington House, a group of authors signed their declaration to support the British war effort in WW1.

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