Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849.
Committee of 100
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. 13 |
| politics | Doris Lessing | She became a regular on these annual Easter anti-nuclear marches. Diski, Jenny. “What to call her?”. London Review of Books, No. 18, pp. 11 -3. 13 Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian. |
| 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 |
Timeline
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.