| AdminHistory | The Anti-Nuclear Campaign's National Office was established in Sheffield some time during 1980/1981, to provide an information service to the anti-nuclear movement, the media and the general public on a national level, and represent the activities of Campaign and working groups at regional and local levels. Examples of such groups included the Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign group, formed in June 1980; and ANC working groups (open to any members) set up to focus on issues such as waste dumping, waste transport, uranium mining, civil liberties, education and appropriate energy.
The establishment of the National Office in Sheffield was achieved with the help of South Yorkshire County Council, which identified affordable accommodation for the Campaign to use as its administrative base (it is known that this was a relocation from elsewhere, but the Office's original location has not been identified). At this time the full-time posts of Administrative Secretary and Trade Union Organiser were created. The secretary co-ordinated the distribution of campaign material (bi-monthly Campaign bulletins, pamphlets, posters, fliers, badges, stickers) promoting opposition to nuclear power, promoting the ANC and fund-raising, whilst the Union Organiser helped to co-ordinate the ANC's campaigning in the trade union and labour movement for changes to TUC and Labour Party policies as they related to nuclear power and weapons.
ANC decisions taken nationally were informed by a Steering Committee, with representatives elected by regions of the country and Annual General meetings. Funding to support the work of the Campaign was an ongoing issue, and by 1984 the lack of financial resources forced the committee to make the National Secretary redundant and to scale down the National Office's operation. Whilst the ANC's postal address remained in Sheffield, from this time affiliates and supporters were serviced by new decentralised arrangements which saw ANC mail order handled by a firm in Cambridge, the Administrative Secretary based in Lincolnshire and the Trade Union Co-ordinator in Worcestershire. In addition, there were six regional contacts. |
| Description | Various printed/typescript items, including news sheets, campaign letters and appeals, fliers, posters and campaign reports.
Correspondence, 1981-1982 (X213/1)
Fundraising, [1982] (X213/2)
Reports and News Sheets, 1981-1984 (X213/3)
Publicity, [1982-1983] (X213/4) |
| RelatedMaterial | Sheffield Archives:
Minutes of the Sheffield Branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1963-1967 (LD 2438);
Correspondence from Friends of the Earth to Joan Maynard, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, regarding the Windscale Inquiry, 1976 (MPA 8);
[?Constituents'] correspondence with Frank Hooley, Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley, regarding nuclear power and Windscale, 1976-1978 (MPB 1-5, 15);
Sheffield City Council minutes, protest regarding grading the testing of nuclear weapons, 1957-1958 (CA-MIN/95);
Sheffield City Council Policy Committee minutes, references to nuclear disarmament, nuclear power and waste, nuclear-free zones, Nuclear-Free Zones Working Party, 1980-1987 (CA-POL/13-17, 19-20, 24);
South Yorkshire Joint Secretariat, agendas, draft minutes and papers regarding nuclear issues, nuclear-free zones, nuclear facilities and emergency planning, transportation of nuclear weapons/material through South Yorkshire, 1989-1990 (SYJA/3/2/28, 3/2/29a, 3/2/35a, 3/2/36a).
Sheffield Local Studies Library:
"Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign Action", 'Sheffield Free Press', p. 3, 26/4/1980 (072.74 SF);
[Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign Group Formation], 'Sheffield Chronicle', p. 10, 4/7/1980 (052.74 SF);
[Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign Festival, Weston Park] Duplicate typescript, 21/9/19[80] (MP 2746 S);
"No to Cruise Missiles. Torchlight Procession." Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign poster, 12/12/19[80] (MP 941 L);
"Sheffield Anti-Nuclear Campaign Says Extend the Nuclear-Free Zone" Duplicate typescript [1980] (MP 2749 S);
Notes on the Anti-Nuclear Campaign in Sheffield, 'Sheffield Free Press', p. 4, May 1981 (072.74 SF);
South Yorkshire Nuclear Action Group [aims and meetings], 'Sheffield Free Press' No. 15, May/June 1977 (072.74 SF);
[Anti-Nuclear Power Demonstration, Fargate, Sheffield], 'Sheffield Free Press', p. 3, May 1980 (072.74 SF);
[Suggested Effects of a Ten Megaton Bomb on Sheffield], 'Sheffield Free Press', p. 3, Jul/Aug 1980 (072.74.SF);
'Anti-Nuclear Bulletin', South Yorkshire County Council Anti-Nuclear Working Party, Jun 1981-Sep 1983 (358.39 SQ);
[Illustrated article on the transportation of nuclear warheads through South Yorkshire], 'Yorkshire Miner', p. 9, Oct 1981 (622.2 SF);
[Article on nuclear power and the views of Sheffield City Council], 'Sheffield Topic', pp. 68-69, Dec 1981 (052.74 SQ). |