| Description | Includes minutes, correspondence and newsletters.
Phil Sedler, Treasurer, August 2022 writes:
'Inevitably many of the people mentioned, particularly in the 'Resister' newsletters, have passed away, so it is especially important that their efforts in campaigning for peace in so many ways and for so many years are not forgotten. Both as individuals and collectively the group has been very active and made itself well known in the Borough. Meetings and demonstrations, deliberately breaking the law and positing a higher law, these residents have struggled resolutely and for so many years to spread the message that war, and particularly nuclear war, has to be unthinkable and that nuclear weapons have no justification if the planet is to survive.
The group's particular focus has of course been on the unilateral abolition of British nuclear weapons as an example to the other nuclear-armed states.
Hence a number of members were visitors to, and sometimes residents at, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. However it also took part in many local and national demonstrations predominantly relating to nuclear weapons but also opposing the various wars in which our country has been involved in recent years.
There is much in these archives to be discovered and admired. The Resisters particularly are well worth browsing through, and will be of much interest to local historians as well as those with a keen interest in the peace movement.'
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| AdminHistory | A Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament group was set up in what is now Tower Hamlets shortly after National CND was set up in 1958. Tower Hamlets Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (THCND) started off as the CND Stepney and Poplar Group in 1959 originating in the campaign group 'Stepney & Poplar Against The Bomb'.
There was a resurgence in its popularity in the 1980s due to the Cruise Missiles. These records predominantly focus on the 1980s and 1990s. They relate to their campaigns, activities and relationships with other organisations such as London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (THYCND).
The records having been deposited by THCND member Paul Barlow, do reflect his own role within the group but also demonstrate the wide reaching activities and campaigns undertaken by the Campaign.
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