Ali Cottally
Ali Cottally first got involved in women's peace activism when she joined the Sellafield Women's Peace Camp in 1993. The camp aimed to draw attention to the link between nuclear power and the military use...
Peace & Protest
Interview with Angie Zelter – Dismantling Weapons of Mass Destruction
Interview with Angie Zelter founder of Trident Ploughshares and co-founder of the International Woman's Peace Service....
Rosie James: Trident Ploughshares
Rosie James describes the Trident Ploughshares action in Barrow-in-Furness and subsequent trial in the courtroom at Lancaster Castle....
Mo Kelly: Uranium destroys life…the spirit gives life. Choose life.
Mo Kelly describes her personal transformation and gradual politicisation through her faith-inspired engagement with justice and peace issues, starting with a talk about nuclear power. As someone who has grown up and lived all her...
Avril Moncaster: Anti-Nuclear Campaigner
Avril describes how ‘Half-Life’ raised public awareness of nuclear issues, pressuring the nuclear industry to be less secretive and forcing a public enquiry into the 1957 nuclear disaster at Windscale (now Sellafield) in Cumbria....
Bob Rowley
Bob Rowley from Lancaster describes his involvement in the General Strike as a clerk on the railways. In the second half of the interview he describes his work as a proof reader and copyrighter on...
Zephyrine
Zephyrine describes her involvement in political activism, starting with Quaker-inspired activism which focussed on local, national and international campaigns, then later women’s activism, peace activism, and most recently her involvement with OCCUPY. ...
Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson describes his involvement in the protest at Lancaster University and the trial of what became known as the ‘George Fox 6.’ He describes how the establishment and the state continue to repress political...
Trident Ploughshares
On the 25th January 2000 the trial of Rosie James and Rachel Wenham began in the court at Lancaster Castle. They faced charges of £1m worth of damage to the Trident nuclear submarine Vengeance...
Occupy Lancaster
Peter Yeandle describes how OCCUPY, an international phenomenon, came to Lancaster one night in November 2011....