Bill Fuge: LGBT Campaigner
Bill Fuge describes his memories of attending the first national conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), held in Morecambe in 1973. Bill also talks about his work as secretary and then convener of...
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Gerald Pryke: Conscientious Objector
Gerald Pryke describes his experience as a conscientious objector during WW2, including detention in a disused cotton mill in Chorley and a tribunal in Lancaster Castle. Elsewhere he explains that he was a conscientious objector...
Rosie James: Trident Ploughshares
Rosie James describes the Trident Ploughshares action in Barrow-in-Furness and subsequent trial in the courtroom at Lancaster Castle....
Anthony Peppiatt: LGBT Activist
Anthony Peppiatt talks about how he was politicised through his involvement with Lancaster Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and radical gay politics, which began while he was an undergraduate at Lancaster University during the early 1970s....
Peter
Peter reflects on his work with the Lancaster Gay Switchboard and some of the local resistance the Switchboard faced, particularly in the early days....
Alistair: LGBT Volunteer
Alistair talks about the kinds of calls Lancaster Gay Switchboard received in the early 1980s when he was involved as a volunteer....
Sheelagh Houlihan
Sheelagh talks about the LGBT social scene in Lancaster and standing up to homophobic abuse in the Farmer's Arms Pub....
Mo Kelly: Uranium destroys life…the spirit gives life. Choose life.
Mo Kelly describes her personal transformation and gradual politicisation through her faith-inspired engagement with justice and peace issues, starting with a talk about nuclear power. As someone who has grown up and lived all her...
Anonymous LGBT Activist
This man, who lived in Lancaster from the early 1970s, looks back on his involvement in various local gay groups and reflects on the distinct energy of gay activism in Lancaster at that time....
Avril Moncaster: Anti-Nuclear Campaigner
Avril describes how ‘Half-Life’ raised public awareness of nuclear issues, pressuring the nuclear industry to be less secretive and forcing a public enquiry into the 1957 nuclear disaster at Windscale (now Sellafield) in Cumbria....