"Shut Aldermaston leaflet" [NMLH.1994.159.1.24]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.159.1.24

Object Name
leaflet

Title
Stop Trident, encircle the base - Shut Aldermaston

Place
Aldermaston

People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Events
Aldermaston Marches

Date
circa 1960

Description
CND leaflet titled "Stop Trident, encircle the base - Shut Aldermaston" with dates for Easter Monday, April 4th. It advertises a march from London leaving on April 1st. There is a photograph of a person looking through a wire fence which has had several dove-shaped postcards tied to along the length (see NMLH.1994.159.1.15). The back contains more information and a form to join CND.


Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes. The Aldermaston marches, also known as the Easter marches, took place between 1958 and 1965, with the CND organising them from 1959. There were intermittent revivals of the original march from 1972 and 2004. Tens of thousands of people attended each year.

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