In April 1983 around 70-thousand people formed a 14-mile long human chain in Berkshire. It stretched from the nuclear warhead factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield to the then US airbase of ...

The group of protesters, Women for Life on Earth, planned a peace march from Cardiff to the airbase. Arriving at Greenham Common in September 1981, they saw the protest as a way of highlighting ...

In 1972, RAF Greenham Common became a resettlement centre for those who were ordered to leave Uganda by president Idi Amin after he seized power. More than 1,600 refugees spent a year living in ...

The "Greenham Common" peace protest camp, created in 1981 in reaction to the announcement of the arrival of nuclear missiles on European soil, marks the beginnings of a worldwide eco-feminist ...

A stonechat on Greenham Common (Image: Paul Brennan) It has also been an RAF airfield, a US Air Force base, and was the site of peace camps during the Cold War when protests took place against ...