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Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Though politics bulked much less large in her childhood than religion, it had some presence. Her mother was a snob about class, but an ill-defined pacifist, who later wore a CND
badge and donated money... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | |
politics | Angela Carter | AC
's politics were those of the left, following the Labour
convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and went on several of its Easter marches to... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
politics | Jennifer Dawson | JD
was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. She wrote: Politics creep, burst inevitably into my novels. They then become shrill, rhetorical, routine, etc. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 247-8 |
politics | Doris Lessing | DL
helped to organise the first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
march to the nuclear facility at Aldermaston, which took place on 4-7 April. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. viii |
politics | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
sees information as critical to understanding and politically aware action, and her work highlights aspects of contemporary living and of women's experience in ways which inform judgement. She seeks to explores tensions between feminist... |
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, 1992. 21-2 |
politics | Pamela Frankau | PF
involved herself seriously in the work of CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
). The British Library of Political and Economic Science
at the |
politics | Dora Russell | The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
(forerunner of CND) was founded. DR
was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley |
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, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes. |
politics | Dora Russell | A year later the council's name was changed to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND
).Though she was involved with the organization for some time, DR
was dissatisfied with what she saw as its... |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
was secretary for the first Aldermaston March of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), from London to the weapons establishment in Berkshire. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 21 “A history of the CND logo”. CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. |
politics | Michèle Roberts | Not long afterwards, she and her friends in London were pursuing street politics to the left of the Labour Party
, like mounting a carnival float at a CND
festival to represent and caricature Real... |