Papers of Mary Ringsleben relating to the Committee of 100 1960-1968

Cadogan, Peter, 1921-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zn0p44 (person)

Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wr52kt (corporateBody)

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...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r3qbb (person)

Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Committee of 100; Mary Ringsleben

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6266jvm (corporateBody)

Mary Ringsleben was an original signatory of the Committee of 100, which 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 Comm...

Ringsleben, Mary., fl 1958-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v84sxg (person)

Committee of 100

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb3qxz (corporateBody)

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 ...