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Symon Hill
First published in Great Britain in 2022 by
Pen & Sword History
An imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Yorkshire – Philadelphia
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Not forgotten though the day break and the shadows flee away.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Introduction
Chapter 1 Protest and Survive
Chapter 2 Lonely Pacifists
Chapter 3 Take the Toys from the Boys
Chapter 4 Remember and Disarm
Chapter 5 Swords into Ploughshares
Chapter 6 Ethical Foreign Policy?
Chapter 7 Shoulder to Shoulder
Chapter 8 Don’t Attack Iraq
Chapter 9 We Are Not the Criminals
Chapter 10 Single Biggest Danger
Chapter 11 It’s Called Democracy
Chapter 12 Everyday Resistance
Notes
Acknowledgements
When I began planning this book, I did not realize that I would be
writing it all during a global pandemic. The difficulty of writing and
research during lockdowns is fairly trivial compared to the suffering
that many have experienced during the Covid pandemic and the
attempts to deal with it. Nonetheless, I am especially grateful for the
practical assistance and emotional support that I have received
during this time.
First of all, my thanks go to staff at Pen & Sword, particularly my
editor Claire Hopkins who commissioned the book and was always
ready to discuss it with me, as well as Chris Cocks, Lucy May, the
cover designers and their colleagues. Several chapters were
improved considerably by the feedback of Christine Goddard and
Hannah Brock Womack, who gave lots of time to reading earlier
drafts. Christine also provided considerable moral support, general
advice and encouragement, as did Ali Fleabite, Lindsey Hall and
other friends, comrades and relatives too numerous to list. I owe
many thanks to my colleagues on the staff of the Peace Pledge
Union – Kathryn Busby, Geoff Tibbs and Saffron Gallup – for their
patience and positivity about the book.
The book would not have been possible at all without the dozens
of people who agreed to be interviewed, by phone, email or online.
Many of them are quoted by name in the following pages, while
others remain unnamed at their request. I hope I have represented
them fairly and done justice to their experience. I was moved by the
willingness of interviewees to devote time to answering questions,
discussing their thoughts and in some cases digging out documents
and information from the past.
I am very grateful to people who allowed me to explore archives
for which they are responsible, particularly Claire Poyner at Peace
News and John Cooper at the Fellowship of Reconciliation. They
went out of their way to make this possible in a Covid-safe way at a
time when we needed to stand at opposite ends of a room while
wearing masks. Thanks to Bill Hetherington and others for their
compilation over years of the archives at the Peace Pledge Union, of
which I was able to make extensive use.
I have drawn on numerous books, newspaper reports, and peace
movement publications, some published at the time to which they
refer and others written at a later date. I am grateful to everyone
who has contributed to such records, which are referenced in the
footnotes. I feel that I must mention two important sources by
name. The Greenham Women Everywhere project has published a
treasure trove of oral and written interviews with nearly 100
Greenham women, which were extremely useful for discovering
varied views and experiences of the Greenham Common Women’s
Peace Camp. Ian Sinclair’s book, The March That Shook Blair, an oral
history of the protests against the Iraq war in 2003, proved
invaluable for researching that vital time in the history of peace
activism.
My biggest thanks go, of course, to everyone who has contributed
to the peace movement in the UK – and around the world – over the
last four decades. They are the people who this book is about. I owe
more thanks than I can put into words to the people with whom I
have had the honour of campaigning for peace and from whom I
have learnt so much.
I make no claims to infallibility. The responsibility for any mistakes
in this book is, of course, mine.
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