Papers of Richard Taylor 1952-1979

Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War

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The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) has its origins in the opposition to the first British hydrogen bomb test at Christmas Island in November 1957. Whilst Labour’s H-Bomb Campaign Committee and the National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests favoured public meetings, petitions and education work, those in favour of direct action against the test set up an emergency committee to organise and finance a voyage to the test zone by pacifist Harold Steele...

National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests

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Committee of 100

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The Committee of 100 was founded on the initiative of Ralph Schoenman and Bertrand Russell in October 1960. The Committee called for a mass movement of civil disobedience against British government policy on nuclear weapons. Its members saw a need for more radical methods than those used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, especially following the defeat of the Labour Party in the 1959 general election. In this sense, the Committee of 100 was the successor of the Direct Action ...

Taylor, R. K. S. (Richard K. S.)

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This collection comprises the research notes and material used by Dr Taylor in writing his PhD thesis, ‘The British nuclear disarmament movement of 1958 to 1965 and its legacy to the left’ (University of Leeds, 1983). The thesis was based on study of the archives of key organisations (the National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests, the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, the Committee of 100 and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and on...