Collections Display - People's History Museum: The national museum of democracy

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Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.5.38

Object Name
Letter

Title
Dear Mr Sheldon, In Britain, we are sandwiched between two great powers possessing nuclear weapons on an island itself containing large numbers of these terrible projectiles

Date
1980s

Description
Typewritten letter which begins "Dear Mr Sheldon, In Britain, we are sandwiched between two great powers possessing nuclear weapons on an island itself containing large numbers of these terrible projectiles." It goes on to ask Sheldon, an MP, to press the Government on cutting arms expenditure. It is left unsigned.

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"Dear Mr Sheldon letter" [Temp.2024.5.38]