"Sit-down blockade Molesworth songbook" [NMLH.1993.194.24]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.194.24

Object Name
Songbook

Title
Sit-down blockade Molesworth

Place
RAF Molesworth

People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
circa 1985

Description
Black and white songbook titled "Sit-down blockade Molesworth" advertising a protest against cruise missiles organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) to take place on 6th February. Text on the back reads "The Blockaders' Info Song Book" next to a photograph of people in a protest crowd.


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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