Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Formby

The Formby CND was a well-organised and committed group of campaigners, fund-raisers, publicists and activists. The archive was collected by former Secretary and Chair during the 1980s and early 1990s. Formby CND were involved with Merseyside CND in the Snowball Campaign. Snowball was a non-violent direct-action campaign against military bases and establishments in the 1980s. It was a national campaign to cut the wire openly at nuclear bases around the country in order to fight for the legal case against nuclear weapons in the courts.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament in the United Kingdom and also campaigns non-violently for a global weapons ban. CND began in November 1957 and since then has been at the forefront of the British peace movement.

On accession, the Formby CND archive was loosely arranged into categories based on function (e.g. administration, campaigns) or format (e.g. minute books, scrapbooks). These series have been maintained, and original order has been preserved within these series where it was discernable. Where it was not discernable, items have been arranged chronologically.

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The main archive of CND is held at the Modern Records Centre, Warwick University (Ref: MS 181). Papers relating to the CND's constitution, minutes of National Council, National Executive Committee and other committees and subject files, 1958-2008 are held at London School of Economics (Ref: GB 97 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). A smaller collection of CND material exists at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (Ref: A/1990/43; CND Cymru), including 'Snowball' campaign papers. Records of certain local CND branches are held at the appropriate record offices: records of the north West CND are at the Working Class Movement Library in salford; papers of the Huddersfield branch, 1960-1989, are at the Kirklees Branch of the West Yorkshire Archives Service (Ref: KC107) - records of the Yorkshire and Humberside branch are at the Wakefield Branch; minutes of the Sheffield branch, 1963-1967, are in Sheffield Central Library; minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Trowbridge district, 1958-1965, are in Wiltshire Record Office; and minutes of the Ystradgynlais, Brecon branch, 1959-1961, are at University College, Swansea.

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Donated to Liverpool Hope University by former Secretary and Chair of Formby CND in 2021

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds further material relating to the CND, including leaflets of the CND and other peace groups (Ref: Coll Misc 00399333), scrapbooks of the Reading and District CND (Ref: Coll Misc 0537/1/5-8), a CND Election leaflet (Ref: Coll Misc 0401/10/2), and a 1983 general election leaflet (Ref: Coll Misc 06922/23/2, 5).

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