Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

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Archive of posters, flyers, and associated ephemera. This engaging collection of colourful and optimistic materials encapsulates the camp's ethos of compassion, non-violence, and female solidarity in its pivotal years of direction action. Included are handouts providing guidance for the "Embrace the Base" demonstration of 13 December 1982 and the "Reflect the Base" event that occurred a year later. The camp at Greenham was founded in 1981 and protested the British government's decision to allow 96 cruise missiles to be stored at the base; it remained at the base for 19 years. Its residents and other temporary attendees engaged in non-violent direction action, which one handout describes as "using creative ideas and methods for closing this factory where nuclear warheads are built without threatening or abusing the workforce or the police". The flyers, handbills, and booklets from Greenham in this collection date between 1982 and 1983, which were the most widely attended years at the camp, attracting tens of thousands of women.Greenham was run in a non-hierarchical, cooperative manner, and its political communications were designed to be accessible. However, they contain serious content, including advice on how protesters should proceed if arrested. One handout warns that "Non-violence on your part unfortunately does not mean people will treat you non-violently".Several items in the collection demonstrate the movement's importance to mothers, and the effort made to be inclusiv

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