The papers of Hugh Brock (1914-1985) 1941-1986

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...

Non Violent Resistance Group

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Brock, Hugh Heron., 1914-1985

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Hugh Brock was born on 15 May 1914 and trained as a printer at the London School of Printing. In 1940 the small printing firm which he ran with his brother Ashley took on the production of the pacifist journal Peace News. Other printers refused to handle it because of the risk of prosecution under the Defence Regulations and a trade ban on its distribution meant that the peace movement had to rely on its own distribution network. Founded in 1936, Peace News was the official paper of...

Holtom, Gerald., 1914-1985

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World Peace Brigade for Non Violent Action

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Peace Pledge Union

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The Peace Pledge Union was founded in 1934, initially as a male-only organisation. Women joined from 1936. Members pledged to renounce war. The Peace Pledge Union has also provided for the victims of war such as Basque child refugees from the Spanish Civil War. From the guide to the Second World War Pacifist Publications, c1937-c1940, (Senate House Library, University of London) ...

Peace News

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