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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 | |
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 | 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... |
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. 13 |
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 | 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, 1995. 506 |
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 | 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... |