Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.218
Object Name
Poster
Title
Children need smiles not missiles
Date
1981
Description
A red poster featuring a child's srawing of a face and blue and white text. Text reads: "Children need smiles NOT MISSILES / MOTHERS WALK FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT / Saturday 26th September / Join us at 2.30pm in St Giles and walk with us with your children to South Park / Puppets - balloons - children's theatre / Bring a picnic if it's fine / Organised by a group of Oxford mothers with no religious or political affiliations. Details from: Oxford 50384 or 722583"
This poster was made around 1981 as part of the Women's Movement for Peace, which also encompassed the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. The protest was held to protest the deployment of US Cruise Missiles in the UK during the Cold War.
