Aldermaston Marches

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Aldermaston Marches

demonstrations by English peace activists and participants in the movement to ban nuclear weapons. The marches usually begin in Aldermaston and end in mass demonstrations in Trafalgar Square in London. The first Aldermaston March took place in April 1958 along the road from London to Aldermaston. Since that time, marches have taken place, with few exceptions, once every spring.

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Caroline and her husband-to-be David beacame dedicated campaigners, taking part in the now famous Aldermaston marches in 1958, when crowds took part in the 40- mile trek from the Berkshire village to London's Trafalgar Square.

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During these eventful years she wrote copiously - Going Home, her account of a trip to Southern Rhodesia in 1956; A Ripple from the Storm; two plays, Each His Own Wilderness and Play with a Tiger; a novel she has since repudiated, Retreat to Innocence - and began "thinking about the scheme for The Golden Notebook." In 1958, she and her son moved into a flat in Langham Street, near Oxford Circus, where she held continuous open house (for visitors including, most notably, Nelson Algren, Joshua Nkomo and - improbable though it seems - Henry Kissinger), participated in the Aldermaston Marches organized by Bertrand Russell's Campaign Against Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and still managed to complete The Golden Notebook and Landlocked.

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Hundreds from the North East joined the Aldermaston marches and demonstrations in London's Trafalgar Square.