The History Hour
The History Hour
BBC World Service
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
50 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2018 at 1:00 pm.
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The treatment of Britain's First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, the CIA's first coup in Latin America, what happened to Eastern Europe's dancing bears, and the culling in Wales of a sacred bull.

Photo: A crowd of conscientious objectors to military service during World War I at a special prison camp (Hulton Archive)