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Greenham Common Peace Camp in pictures
In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common to protest American nuclear missiles on British soil. Greenham Common Peace Camp lasted for 19 years in one of the most successful examples of collective female activism since the suffragettes. Bridget Boudewijn visited the camp many times and photographed what she saw…
A peace sign being painted on Ginnie Evans’s face by Sue Bolton; they then joined an action dressed as witches and cut down hundreds of yards of fence. (Bridget Boudewijn)
(Bridget Boudewijn)
Women who were involved in the miners’ strikes often visited the Greenham women, many of whom reciprocated this support by joining campaigns in the mining communities. (Bridget Boudewijn)
Women living at Greenham and visitors to the camp tied items of emotional significance, often photographs of family members, to the fence. These were symbols of what they loved, and stood to lose, in a nuclear holocaust. (Bridget Boudewijn)
The Greenham women often humorously inverted media and government messages. (Bridget Boudewijn)
A Greenham woman’s car decorated with lyrics from the Frankie Armstrong song ‘Out of the Darkness’. (Bridget Boudewijn)
Women in the foreground gather before an action in front of some of the underground military buildings in the background. (Bridget Boudewijn)
