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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘A hidden story’: women’s peace petition makes centenary return to Wales

Annie Hughes-Griffiths, with Gladys Thomas, Mary Ellis and Elined Prys, holds open the women's peace appeal outside the White House
Annie Hughes-Griffiths holds the women’s peace appeal outside the White House in 1924 after a meeting with President Coolidge, with (from left) Gladys Thomas, Mary Ellis and Elined Prys. Photograph: WCIA

There were tears of joy, speeches of hope and sighs of relief that all had gone smoothly after an extraordinary century-old document – reputedly seven miles long – completed its transatlantic trip back to Wales.

The peace petition, signed by almost three-quarters of all Welsh women in the 1920s but forgotten until the last few years, arrived at the National Library of Wales on Wednesday after being gifted to the country by the National Museum of American History in Washington.

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