Links — Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust

Love in the time of war – New Zealand’s first pacifist memorial holds the story of Archibald and Millicent Baxter.

Full text of Archibald Baxter's 'We Will Not Cease' freely available to view on the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.

Read the full text of Archibald Baxter's 'We Will Not Cease' made available by Victoria University's New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.

This link takes you to a page about the TV movie 'Field Punishment No. 1'. Made in 2014, this movie vividly recreates the horrendous realities of the first world war and the persecution of Archibald Baxter. There is a short trailer.

Here is a link to the Te Ara online encyclopedia entry for "Baxter, Archibald McColl Learmond" written by the historian David Grant and a solid and useful resource for students and researchers.

Link to a an Otago Daily Times article from 2013 by Eileen Goodwin, which includes pictures of and interviews with key members of the Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust.

A blog dedicated to the remembrance of conscientious objectors, pacifists and other New Zealanders who resisted war. Find out more about well known pacifists such as Archibald Baxter and other less famous peacemakers.

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A New Zealand blog which focuses on the contested politics of the Anzac centenary. Archibald Baxter, Ormond E Burton, Robin Hyde and John A Lee all wrote books which are highly relevant to the question of how WW1 should be remembered more than one hundred years later.

Honest History promotes balanced consideration of Australian history by offering contesting, evidence-based interpretations to students, teachers, universities, journalists and the public. We challenge the misuse of history to serve political or other agendas.