Memories of RAF Greenham Common have been shared on the 25th anniversary of the site being opened to the public. The Berkshire airbase became a key hub for the US Air Force and, during the Cold War, ...

(MENAFN- Pressat) In an unprecedented move, Greenham Common in Newbury, Berkshire is set to host its inaugural Half Marathon and 10K event. Renowned for its historical significance as the former RAF ...

An exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Ugandan Asian refugees in the UK has opened at one of the bases which welcomed them. In 1972, RAF Greenham Common became a resettlement ...

RAF Greenham Common air base was the site of continuous women's peace protests from 1981 until 1991 when the final American Cruise missiles were removed. The demonstrations ended with the closure of ...

RAF MILDENHALL, England — Greenham Common, once home to some of the most destructive weapons in the U.S. arsenal, is now home to weapons from “a galaxy far, far away.” Models of the Millennium Falcon ...

The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire In 1982 Peggy Seeger wrote a song called Carry Greenham Home in tribute to the ...

Juley Howard was 16 and came from a "conservative family". Attending a girls' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, she was doing well studying for her A-levels - until she went on a day's protest ...

Back in 1983, an astonishing 50,000 women held a protest in West Berkshire. That's more than twice the capacity of the Madejski Stadium, who all turned up at the base at RAF Greenham Common to protest ...

On August 27, 1981, around 40 people started a march from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common, near Newbury in Berkshire. The group, almost totally made up of women, were against the storing of American ...

Miss Truss told how she was taken to the anti-nuclear women-only protest at Greenham Common RAF camp in Berkshire by her mother, who was a nurse and a teacher Britain's new Secretary of State for ...

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