Meg Beresford
{{Short description|British campaigner against nuclear weapons and activist}}
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Meg Beresford (born 5 September 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1549437.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1549437.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Birthdays|date=1992-09-04|website=The Independent|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-05-14}} was a British campaigner against nuclear weapons and general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1985 to 1990.
An activist involved with the European Nuclear Disarmament (END) movement, she came to prominence as END's organising secretary.
In 1985 Beresford was appointed General Secretary for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Europe's largest single-issue peace campaign. Her term concluded in 1990, and she subsequently worked as a gardener for the Iona Community on the island of Iona.
Works
- "CND and the Soviet Union", Sanity, January 1985{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2U4AAAAIAAJ|title=From Cold War to Collapse: Theory and World Politics in the 1980s|last1=Bowker|first1=Mike|last2=Brown|first2=Robin|date=1993-01-01|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=9780521426121|language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=4NTteASCe1AC&dq=Meg+Beresford+cnd&pg=PA196 Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"], P. J. O'Rourke, Grove Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-8021-3701-2}}
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{{Succession box| title=General Secretary of CND | before=Bruce Kent | after=Gary Lefley| years=1985–1990}}
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Category:British anti-war activists
Category:Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activists
Category:British anti–nuclear weapons activists
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