Created by young filmmaker Elizabeth McGlynn, War on Lies: The Alice Wheeldon Campaign premiered at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery on 27 January 2024, 108 years after Alice’s birth.
Alice Wheeldon's birthday marked by screening of new documentary
Media coverage of CCRC decision
BBC reports on Chloë Mason's lodgement of CCRC application
BBC News, Derby, 20 November 2019: The family of a woman jailed for a plot to poison a prime minister has lodged an application to review her case.
Alice Wheeldon was convicted in 1917 of a conspiracy to kill David Lloyd George as she opposed World War One.
Wheeldon's great-granddaughter Chloe Mason, who lives in Australia, came to England to deliver the application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Women and the First World War: A taste of freedom
Alice Wheeldon receives a STAR in Derby
Remembering Peter Mason, physics professor and Alice Wheeldon's grandson
‘The Science Show’, ABC Radio National, 5 August 2017: Physics professor Peter Mason gave the first lecture at the newly opened Macquarie University in Sydney in 1967. He was also a radio presenter producing award-winning programs for a new radio show on the ABC, The Science Show. But there was a painful family history which was only revealed to his daughters just prior to his death in 1987. Sharon Carleton reports.
Vigil for Alice Wheeldon at Royal Courts of Justice
BBC News, Derby, 11 March 2017: Relatives of a suffragette jailed for plotting to poison a prime minister have held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice as part of their campaign to clear her name.
Alice Wheeldon was convicted 100 years ago, on 11 March 1917, of planning to kill Lloyd George as she opposed World War One.
Two of her great-granddaughters came from Australia for the vigil.
‘Alice’s story’ – interview with Sheila Rowbotham
Counterfire reviews Friends of Alice Wheeldon
Alice Wheeldon, a false accusation, and why the case still matters
Brave in their own way: honouring Conscientious Objectors of the First World War
First world war bravery was not confined to the soldiers
Keith Venables tells the story of Alice Wheeldon
Jeremy Paxman on Britain’s Great War and its ‘darkest hour’
The poison dart
Sydney Morning Herald, April 20, 2013 : It was a bizarre plot to murder the British PM - or was it? Two sisters tell Suzy Freeman-Greene why they want justice for their framed forebears.
In 1986, as he was dying of brain cancer, Sydney physicist Peter Mason sat his daughters down to watch a video. It was a dramatised documentary, set in the dark days of World War I, called The Plot to Murder Lloyd George.