"Molesworth day of action leaflet" [NMLH.1993.194.2.6]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.194.2.6

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
Molesworth day of action

Place
RAF Molesworth

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1986

Description
Black and white printed leaflet on light yellow paper titled "Molesworth day of action" advertising a blockade between 6am-3pm on February 6th, 1986 at the Women's Gate. An illustration takes up most of the page, of a dove of peace with many female or Venus symbols coming from the beak. Inside is information about the blockadeand increasing representation of women at Molesworth.


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.

Multimedia