Article 5MS27 Share your memories of the Greenham Common women’s peace camp

Share your memories of the Greenham Common women’s peace camp

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We would like to hear from women who took part in the peace protest at Greenham Common

It is nearly 40 years since women first set up a peace camp outside RAF Greenham Common in protest against the storage of US cruise missiles on British soil.

On the 5th September 1981, a Welsh women's group, marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common in Berkshire to protest against Nato's decision to site 96 US cruise nuclear missiles at the RAF base. The women-only peace protest lasted 19 years.

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