Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Connections

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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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Jackie Kay
JK 's adoptive mother (my mum), Helen Kay , was (like her husband) a white Communist Party activist. She came from Lochgelly in Fife, where her father was a miner,
Kay, Jackie. Red Dust Road. Pan Macmillan.
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and...
politics Sylvia Kantaris
SK belonged to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . She listed her politics in Contemporary Authors as surrealist.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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
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.
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“A history of the CND logo”. CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
politics Judith Kazantzis
She has been a feminist from the time that the women's movement began, and also a passionate campaigner against war, particularly nuclear war. She writes of these forces of destruction as a third parent /...
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 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.
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politics Muriel Box
During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of...
politics Vera Brittain
In 1960 VB began to support the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . However, her husband's hopes of a peerage and her daughter's political career limited her involvement.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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 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 Ruth Rendell
During the 1980s RR was active in support both of the Labour Party and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Later she was involved with Emily's List (founded in February 1993 with the aim...
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. St James Press.
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Timeline

Late October 1955: The Welsh poet R. S. (Ronald Stuart) Thomas...

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Late October 1955

The Welsh poetR. S. (Ronald Stuart) Thomas first came to wide notice with his collection Song at the Year's Turning (with an introduction by John Betjeman ), which drew on three earlier volumes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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15 May 1957: The Conservative government went ahead with...

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15 May 1957

The Conservative government went ahead with the explosion (over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific) of Britain's first thermonuclear bomb.

17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...

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17 February 1958

CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.

17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...

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17 February 1958

CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.

Easter Weekend 1958: CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)...

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Easter Weekend 1958

CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) held its first Easter march from London to Aldermaston in Berkshire, site of the British army's chief nuclear research establishment.

8 October 1959: Judith Hart, Labour candidate and founding...

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8 October 1959

Judith Hart , Labour candidate and founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was elected to Parliament for Lanarkshire.

19 April 1960: The column of anti-nuclear Easter marchers...

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19 April 1960

The column of anti-nuclear Easter marchers arriving in Trafalgar Square from Aldermaston in Berkshire numbered about 40,000 people and stretched for about six miles.

17 September 1961: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)...

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17 September 1961

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) suffered particularly large-scale arrests of its supporters.

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.

April 1965: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) demonstrators...

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April 1965

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) demonstrators numbering about 150,000 protested against America's war in Vietnam.

19 September 1970: Inspired by a blues festival held at the...

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19 September 1970

Inspired by a blues festival held at the showground of the annual Bath and West agricultural show, Michael Eavis held a festival at his farm at Glastonbury in Somerset.

Texts

Arrowsmith, Pat. On the Brink. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1981.
Arrowsmith, Pat. Thin Ice. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Study War No More. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1974.