Nuclear and Peace Issues

Correspondence regarding proposed establishment of Manchester Peace Council in 1982 and reservations of Booth-Clibborn. Notes from Stretford Peace Evening on 21 Oct 1981 and Middleton Peace Rally of 7 May 1984, and leaflet from Bolton Youth Peace Festival of Sep 1982. Letter from Alf Morris at Ministry of Defence in response to resolutions of Manchester Diocesan Synod. Letter of Apr 1984 response from Peace Tax Campaign to Booth-Clibborn's questioning of rationale. From 1985 onwards material relating to Booth-Clibborn's patronage of 'Freeze' and 'Just Defence' campaigns, and organisation of the latter's reception at Manchester Cathedral in Dec 1985. Booth-Clibborn is also signatory to international appeal to world leaders against the militarisation of space organised by International Peace Communication and Coordination Centre in May 1986. An enclosed folder contains material relating to Non-Nuclear Defence Conference of Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research at Lancaster University on 11 Apr 1987, papers presented include 'Defence and the Nuclear Deterrent - An agonising dilemma' by Booth-Clibborn. Letter and exhibition of Fellowship of Reconciliation England from Oct 1991 on Trident.