Name/TitleBooklet: Women's Banners
About this objectSlim booklet titled 'Women's Banners', edited and published by Thalia Campbell as part of WFLOE (Women for Life on Earth). The listed contents are:
1. Early Banners by Dorothy Thompson
2. Banner Making by Mary Lowndes; reprinted from 'English Woman' September 1910
3. Press Reports on Suffragette Banners
4. Women for Peace by Moira Vincentelli
5. How To Make a Banner by Thalia Campbell
MakerCampbell, Thalia
Maker RoleEditor and Publisher
Date Madec.1985 - 2000
Period1980s-1990s
Place MadeWales, Borth
Place NotesWFLOE A & P Glan Gors, Ynyslas, Borth SY24 5JU
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 208 x W: 148 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsarts - textiles
Subject and Association KeywordsPeace movement
Subject and Association Keywordsanti-nuclear activism
Subject and Association Keywordssocial justice, equality
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://peacenews.info/node/10029/women-peace-banners-greenham-common:
[Thalia Campbell was one of the founders of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.] Thalia was one of the women on the inaugural march from Cardiff to Greenham Common between 27 August and 5 September 1981. As soon as she returned from the Peace Camp to her home in Borth, Wales, Campbell started making consistently strong and beautiful banners. They often referenced Suffragette campaign tactics and were always composed to communicate the messages of the Greenham Women strongly and clearly in press photographs and TV footage. Though the women were often ridiculed in the mainstream media, the footage of the banners made sure that the protesters’ opinions were heard.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG168186:
WFLOE (Women for Life On Earth) [is] a campaigning group who walked 120 miles from Cardiff to Greenham in 1981, in a protest against cruise missiles and to make a general anti nuclear protest. Following the march some of the women then chained themselves to a fence on arrival. Some of the protestors also established a peace camp outside the Greenham common base, which was occupied by women throughout the 1980s and 1990s until the last remaining protestors left in 2000. Today the group actions for a cooperation between women to campaign for peace, ecological issues and social justice.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2024-4-3
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved