Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Connections

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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
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, 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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, 1992.
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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 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 London School of Economics holds a collection of her papers...
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 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 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, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
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...
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.
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“A history of the CND logo”. CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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 Maggie Gee
By 1981 she became a committed anti-nuclear protester and CND member.
Gee, Maggie. “Serious Fun”. Mslexia, No. 59, Sept. 2013, pp. 12-13.
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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 poet R. 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.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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“Britain drops its first H-bomb”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 May 1957.

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.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
299
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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.
Minnion, John, and Philip Bolsover, editors. The CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] Story. Allison and Busby, 1983.
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Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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.
“1960: Thousands protest against H-bomb”. BBC News, 18 Apr. 2010.

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.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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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.
Committee of 100,. Mail Interception and Telephone Tapping in Britain. Hampstead Group, Committee of 100 and Housmans Bookshop, 1965.
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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.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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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.
Glastonbury Festival: Brief History. http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/about_us.aspx?id=38.

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.