Voices of dissent
Kevin Booth, senior curator at English Heritage, tells the Friend about a project at Richmond Castle that celebrates the witness of imprisoned conscientious objectors
In the past few years English Heritage has been conserving and stabilising graffiti on the walls of the nineteenth century cell block at Richmond Castle in Yorkshire. It was written, drawn and scratched over many decades. Some, done during the first world war, are a precious resource in the story of conscientious objection in Britain.
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