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Pat Arrowsmith’s legacy - the antinuclear activist was a peace poet too

By Isobel Cook, PhD candidate in English, University of Sheffield
Pat Arrowsmith, the British peace activist and notable figure in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, passed away last week at the age of 93. Obituaries have celebrated her commitment to the peace movement, noted her one-day marriage (despite being a lesbian, Arrowsmith married a man to fulfil the terms of her father’s inheritance) and mentioned the numerous prison sentences she served for protest action.


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