Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 1980s72

13-12-1982 - Blockade against cruise missiles, Greenham Common 1982 © John Sturrock

10-10-1982 - Women blockading RAF Greenham Common 1982. Blockade The Base women protest by sitting down at Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missiles were deployed © John Harris

10-10-1982 - Police arresting women blockading Greenham Common 1982. Blockade the base women protest by sitting down at Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed.... © John Harris

10-10-1982 - Police arresting women blockading Greenham Common 1982. Blockade the base women protest by sitting down at Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed.... © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the Base, RAF Greenham Common 1983, Newbury, Berkshire. Peace Camp supporters surround the base in day of action. © Peter Arkell

12-12-1982 - Embrace the Base protest 1982, RAF Greenham Common. 30,000 women joining hands around USAF American Airforce base from which cruise missiles were deployed © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the Base protest RAF Greenham Common 1982, 30,000 women joining hands around USAF American Airforce base from which cruise missiles are deployed © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the Base, RAF Greenham Common 1983. Women pushing at the perimeter fence, protesting at the presence of US cruise missiles with nuclear warheads, Peace Camp supporters surround the base in day... © Peter Arkell

12-12-1982 - Embrace the base women protest, Greenham Common 1982. Elderly woman with placard, USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace The Base women protest, Greenham Common 1982. USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Woman singing at the main gate of the American Cruise Missile base at RAF Greenham Common at the end of the Embrace the Base protest when 30,000 woman joined hands around the nine mile perimeter fence... © Bob Naylor

12-12-1982 - Veteran Peace campaigner Angela Gradwell playing her concertina USAF Greenham Common Cruise Missile base, 1982 © Bob Naylor

12-12-1982 - Woman pinning pictures of their families on the fence of Greenham Common, Embrace the Base protest, 1982 30,000 woman joined hands around the nine mile perimeter fence of RAF Greenham © Bob Naylor

12-12-1982 - Embrace The Base women protest Greenham Common 1982 USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the base women protest at Greenham Common 1982 USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed. 1982 Protestor singing and playing guitar. © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the base women protest, Greenham Common 1982 American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed. 1982 Protestor singing and playing guitar. © John Harris

12-12-1982 - Embrace the base women protest at the perimeter fence, Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed. 1982 © John Harris

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles. Police removing women from a road leading into the base. © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles. Police removing women from a road leading into the base. © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles. Police removing women from a road leading into the base. © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles. Police removing women from a road leading into the base. © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Greenham Common, 1982 Women protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles. Police removing women from a road leading into the base. © Joanne O'Brien

13-12-1982 - Protesters blockade against cruise missiles, Greenham Common 1982 © John Sturrock

13-12-1982 - Blockade against cruise missiles, Greenham Common, 1982 © John Sturrock

13-12-1982 - Women at the Greenham Common Peace Camp in Newbury, Berkshire, reading a story in the Daily Mail about their protest against US air bases hosting nuclear weapons in the UK whilst blockading a gate. © Stefano Cagnoni

15-02-1983 - Police removing women blockading RAF Greenham Common 1983 against USAF Cruise Missiles, Berkshire © John Harris

05-03-1983 - 1983 1000 mile CND protest march from Faslane Naval Base Scotland to USAF Greenham Common protest at American nuclear weapons being stationed in the UK © Ben Thompson

05-03-1983 - 1983 1000 mile CND protest march from Faslane Naval Base Scotland to USAF Greenham Common protest at American nuclear weapons being stationed in the UK © Ben Thompson

29-03-1983 - Women blockading RAF Greenham Common 1982, USAF airbase, Newbury, Berkshire. Women protesting at the presence of US cruise missiles with nuclear warheads © NLA

01-04-1983 - 1983 14 mile human chain from Greenham to Aldermaston. Women for Peace and 70,000 women protesters forming a human chain between RAF Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base - from which cruise mis... © John Harris

01-04-1983 - 1983, 70,000 women protesters forming a 14 mile human chain 1983 between Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed to Burghfield, Aldermaston nuclear... © Peter Arkell

01-04-1983 - 1983, 70,000 women protesters forming a 14 mile human chain 1983 between Greenham Common USAF American Airforce Base from which cruse missile launchers were deployed to Burghfield, Aldermaston nuclear... © Peter Arkell

04-07-1983 - Women blockading RAF Greenham Common 1982, USAF airbase, Newbury, Berkshire. Women weave thread onto the gates of the main entrance, while others blockade it by sitting down. © Peter Arkell

20-10-1983 - Greenham Common. Police officers arrest a woman as she enters the US air base as part of her campaign of direct action for peace and against nuclear weapons held at the site. 1983 © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - RAF Greenham Common. Women protestors cutting the wire with bolt-cutters to gain entry to the cruise missile base © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - RAF Greenham Common. Police arresting woman protestor cutting the wire and trying to enter the base. 29-10-1983. © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Women cutting the wire fence RAF Greenham Common. Women protestors cutting the wire with bolt-cutters as MOD police and soldiers on the other side of the fence try and stop them © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Women cutting the wire fence RAF Greenham Common. USAF Military police photographing the protest © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Greenham Common. An improvised Buddhist Temple near the Green Gate at the US air base in Berkshire, campaign against the continued presence of American nuclear weapons on British soil during the Cold... © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Greenham Common. Soldier grappling with woman using bolt cutters to cut the perimeter fence and enter the US Air Base in Berkshire as part of the campaign of peaceful direct action against the holding... © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Greenham Common. Soldiers and security staff are unable to prevent women peace campaigners using bolt cutters to enter the US air base as part of their campaign of direct action for peace and against... © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Greenham Common. Soldiers guarding women under arrest near a missile silo, RAF Greenham Common Air Base, Berkshire. The women were held for cutting down the perimeter fence and trespassing on the US a... © Melanie Friend

29-10-1983 - Women rip down the perimiter fence, RAF Greenham Common. USAF helicopter © John Sturrock

02-11-1983 - A warning sign put up near Salisbury Plain by protesters danger US nuclear missiles on exercise, as Greenham Common became the base as American Cruise Missiles were deployed there. © Bob Naylor

09-11-1983 - Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (in masks) 1983, US Embassy, London, makeing merry while death stalks behind. Greenham Common women protest © Peter Arkell

15-11-1983 - Cruise Missiles arriving at RAF Greenham Common. Lockheed C-141 Starlifter carrying Cruise Missiles landing at RAF Greenham Common, 1983 © John Sturrock

11-12-1983 - Soldiers arresting woman cutting the fence wire, RAF Greenham Common in protest against cruise missiles © Melanie Friend

11-12-1983 - Greenham Common. Soldiers stand guard over women who successfully entered the US air base as part of their campaign of direct action for peace and against nuclear weapons held at the site. © Melanie Friend

11-12-1983 - Cruisewatch protest 1983 speeding USAF cruise missile launcher convoy returns to RAF Greenham Common through Newbury in the early hours from deployment on Salisbury Plain © John Harris

11-12-1983 - Greenham Common. Soldier arresting a woman attempting to enter the US air base as part of her campaign of direct action for peace and against nuclear weapons held at the site. © Melanie Friend

15-12-1983 - Greenham Common peace camp, 1983. Protest outside Newbury Magistrates Court, Berkshire, at trial of women arrested at the entrance to the airbase. © NLA

01-01-1984 - Balloons for Peace, RAF Greenham Common peace camp against the American USAF cruise missiles at the base, New Years Day 1984 © John Harris

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984, Protest at US cruise missiles on the base. Relaxing at the camp outside the Greenham RAF air base fence, near Newbury, Berkshire. © Katalin Arkell

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984, Newbury, Berkshire, to protest at the US cruise missiles at the air base, and the threat of nuclear war. © Katalin Arkell

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984. Talking to visitors and relaxing at the camp with an open fire outside the Greenham RAF air base, near Newbury, Berkshire. © Katalin Arkell

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984. Talking to visitors and relaxing at the camp with an open fire outside the Greenham RAF air base, near Newbury, Berkshire. © Katalin Arkell

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984 Resting at the camp outside the Greenham RAF air base, near Newbury, Berkshire. © Katalin Arkell

24-02-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984 Washing up in the woods of the camp outside the Greenham RAF airbase, near Newbury, Berkshire. © Katalin Arkell

20-05-1984 - RAF Greenham Common. Grannies Against Nuclear Winter, women pensioners protesting against cruise missiles. Christian CND © Melanie Friend

06-08-1984 - Greenham Common womens peace camp, 1984, No More Hiroshimas protest against US cruise missiles at the RAF base, on the anniversary of the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb. Newbury © Katalin Arkell

23-09-1984 - Women from the peace camp, 1984, RAF Greenham Common airbase, Newbury, Berkshire walk round the highly fortified base. © Peter Arkell

23-09-1984 - Women from the peace camp, 1984, RAF Greenham Common airbase, Newbury, Berkshire walk round the highly fortified base. © Peter Arkell

23-09-1984 - Blockade of the USAF air base at Greenham Common on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp. Police use horses to force the women aside. © Stefano Cagnoni

23-09-1984 - Blockade of the USAF air base at Greenham Common on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp. Police use horses to try and force the women aside from the roa... © Stefano Cagnoni

23-09-1984 - Blockade of the USAF air base at Greenham Common on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp © Stefano Cagnoni

23-09-1984 - Blockade of the USAF Air Base at Greenham Common on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp. Police force back women as they try to prevent military vehicle... © Stefano Cagnoni

18-03-1986 - Christian CND protest against Cruise missile convoy 1986 returning from Salisbury plain. Monks holding up white crosses as a launcher and convoy carrying nuclear missiles passes by returning to RAF Gr... © John Harris

04-11-1986 - Protesters gather as American Cruise Missiles based from Greenham Common are deployed to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. © Bob Naylor

04-04-1988 - Woman climbing security fence AWE Aldermaston CND protest, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment © Melanie Friend

01-08-1989 - Greenham Common cruise missiles leaving, being loaded onto a Galaxy transport plane as the USAF begins to withdraw from the RAF airbase under the terms of the INF Treaty, Berkshire, 1989. © John Harris

01-08-1989 - Greenham Common woman waving cruise missiles goodbye. Galaxy transport plane taking off as the USAF begins to withdraw nucular weapons from the RAF airbase under the terms of the INF Treaty, Berkshire... © John Harris