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Innovative inmates circulate free sheet

Wed, 19 Feb, 2014 - 00:00

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ENGLAND: Conscientious objectors who were imprisoned for their beliefs during the First World War kept in touch with each other in prison by circulating a journal handwritten on toilet paper.

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