"Conflict resolution & the peace movement leaflet" [NMLH.1993.150.12]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.150.12

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
Conflict resolution & the peace movement

Place
RAF Molesworth

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1980s

Description
Leaflet titled "Conflict resolution & the peace movement - What can we learn from Molesworth?" The front cover is a photomontage of a prison cell, a close-up of a policeman's face, and another person facing away.


RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire was one of three sites chosen to deploy 64 US Cruise missiles during the Cold War. In 1980, various peace campaigners started building a protest camp on the land, called 'Peace Corner'. In 1985, over 100 people were living there until the camp was evicted by police in April that year. Despite this, the campaign continued with various protestors camping in or around the site. Nuclear missiles were removed from the RAF Molesworth base in 1987 when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the camp officially disbanded in 1990, just before the end of the Cold War.

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