Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.62.5.5
Object Name
Newsletter
Title
Greenham Newsletter Bristol Jan 1985
Place
RAF Greenham Common
People
Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC)
Events
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Date
1985
Description
Printed newsletter titled "Greenham Newsletter Bristol Jan 1985" with an illustration of dozens of women gathered in a circle around a banner reading "Vigil for Peace" outside a razor wire fence. The back cover is titled "Bristol women against pit closures".
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protested against nuclear weapons between 1981 and 2000. Thousands of women, many from the lesbian or wider LGBTQIA community, travelled from all over the UK to live at the site for weeks, months or years.
The RAF base at Greenham Common was one of three sites within the UK chosen to deploy US Cruise missiles during the Cold War. The protest started in 1981 when a group of mainly Welsh women chained themselves to the fences that surrounded the base. Shortly after, in 1982, a women's-only protest camp was established in order to resist further deployment of nuclear weapons. Cruise missiles were removed from Greenham Common in 1987, following the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, shortly before the end of the Cold War in 1991. Despite multiple eviction attempts, the camp remained standing until 2000 to oppose the UK government's nuclear deterrent Trident Programme.
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