Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.184.1
Object Name
card
Title
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp; Christmas
Date
1980-1990
Description
Christmas card featuring a colour photograph of banners displayed on barbed wire fence at Molesworth Peace Camp, overlooked by two policemen. Banners visible in the image read "When will the arms race end?", "Stop Cruise", and "We are told to feed the hungry - not bomb the helpless. Choose life!" To the right text reads "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" above an illustration of two candles.
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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