Committee of 100

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politics Ann Oakley
By her late teens she herself was a socialist. She was a member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and later of the associated Committee of 100 .
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo.
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politics Doris Lessing
She became a regular on these annual Easter anti-nuclear marches.
Diski, Jenny. “What to call her?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 18, pp. 11-13.
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She was also involved with Quakers and others in setting up the anti-war group called the Committee of 100 .
Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian.
Having become a radical...
politics Shelagh Delaney
SD was arrested (along with John Osborne and Vanessa Redgrave ) when she took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration at Trafalgar Square with the Committee of 100 .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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politics Pat Arrowsmith
PA worked as an organizer for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War , the Committee of 100 and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
politics Pat Arrowsmith
The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) was a smaller forerunner of CND (founded in 1957) and specialized in civil disobedience.
“100 years of action for peace. A Peace Pledge Union Project”. PPU (Peace Pledge Union) Information.
The Committee of 100 (not the only organization to bear this name in...

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11 May 1963: The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group...

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11 May 1963

The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group with which Pat Arrowsmith was associated, offshoot of CND ) held a demonstration at the RAF base at Marham in Norfolk.

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