The accession includes approximately 100 completed questionnaires, plus some abstracts and related correspondence and lists of conscientious objectors. In 1944 the League circulated a questionnaire about prison conditions to conscientious objectors, on the grounds that information so obtained in the Great War promoted prison reforms. Letters from prominent pacifists and opponents of nuclear war, in the above and other connections, include Pat Arrowsmith, Vera Brittain, Corder Catchpool, Muriel Lester, Canon John Collins and Bertrand Russell. opposition to nuclear weapons, including letters to the press, correspondence following publication of The Devil's repertoire (1958), and requests from CND and other groups to speak on nuclear disarmament.post-war reconciliation with Germany (including Save Europe Now movement).The Gollancz papers contain material on the following themes: His surviving papers, dating mainly from 1945 onwards, were generously presented to the Centre by his family in 1977. Sir Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), publisher and founder of the Left Book Club, is well known for his support of humanitarian and left-wing causes, which in the post-war period opposition to nuclear weapons. The post-war correspondence of Coventry Borough Labour Party includes some items received from CND, Committee of 100, and relating to nuclear disarmament generally. His papers include the following: European Nuclear Disarmament minutes, correspondence and related papers, 1981-1986 campaign and strategy papers, 1982-1985 Public Information Campaign Group papers, 1986-1987 West Midlands CND Committee minutes and papers, 1980-1984 CND Projects Committee, minutes, agenda, papers and correspondence, 1982-1987. James Hinton was active in the CND in 1980s and chaired West Midlands CND. Mary Brennan was Vice-Chair of CND, 1988-1992: the Mary Brennan Peace Movement papers include papers on her work for various peace movements, 1982-1996.Marjorie Thompson was a Vice-Chair and Chair of CND, 1987-1993: her papers include Council and Conference papers, 1987-1992.Archives of the West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which include papers of the Executive, Regional Council and Annual General Meeting, and subject files relating to particular campaigns, including anti-Cruise missile and the Gulf War, 1981-1991.
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The deposited records include signed Executive Committee minutes, 1958-68 Sanity, 1961-8, 1975-8 incomplete series of other CND publications. Campaign for Nuclear DisarmamentĮstablished in 1958 as successor to National Committee for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests. The accession includes some correspondence also a transcription in "Sound speaking" of a diary of his experiences.
Barrett unsuccessfully applied for medical exemption from military service in the Great War after enlistment he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector at Wormwood Scrubs and Wakefield, having refused to wear uniform. Socialist journalist and campaigner (1877-1950 see entry in Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.4). The names of people or organisations form links to the catalogue descriptions of their archives. Information about archives relating to the anti-Vietnam War movement is included in a separate subject guide. Although the history of the peace movement and pacifism is not specifically included within the Centre's interest fields, it so happens that, partly as a result of its interest in pressure groups, the Centre has accumulated some important sources for the history of the anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons movements, details of which are given in this guide.
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