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politics | Angela Carter | AC
's politics were those of the left, following the Labour
convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and went on several of its Easter marches to... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
politics | Jennifer Dawson | JD
was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. She wrote: Politics creep, burst inevitably into my novels. They then become shrill, rhetorical, routine, etc. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 247-8 |
politics | Doris Lessing | DL
helped to organise the first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
march to the nuclear facility at Aldermaston, which took place on 4-7 April. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. viii |
politics | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
sees information as critical to understanding and politically aware action, and her work highlights aspects of contemporary living and of women's experience in ways which inform judgement. She seeks to explores tensions between feminist... |
politics | Ann Oakley | By her late teens she herself was a socialist. She was a member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and later of the associated Committee of 100
. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992. 21-2 |
Publishing | Pat Arrowsmith | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
published On the Brink, a volume of PA
's anti-war poetry and illustrations. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | PF
published for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
a pamphlet entitled Letter to a Parish Priest, which takes a hard look at atomic weapons and comes down in favour of banning them. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
released Thin Ice: Peace Poems, a collection protesting against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This was her second publication through the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | A year after publishing her anti-nuclear play, ML
contributed to a collection issued by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
entitled Survivors: Fiction Based on Scientific Fact, edited by Antoinette Pirie
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
put out a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND) pamphlet, Study War No More (titled from a well-known spiritual). Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zoë Fairbairns | The authors' note describes this non-fiction text as photographic journalism or preventative photography, aimed at undercutting the way we accept war as an inevitable spectacle that takes place somewhere else. Fairbairns, Zoë et al. Peace Moves: Nuclear Protest in the 1980s. Chatto and Windus, 1984. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Deborah Moggach | This novel deals rather briefly with the social and commercial success constructed for himself by Gordon Hammond (a self-made builder), then in more detail the flying apart of this apparently stable construction and the re-assemblage... |
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