‘We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continually targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing increase in overkill. We protest the expansion of the arms race to space....
To launch the Medact archive on 27 June 2014, Wellcome Library played host to a conference on the history of medical activism: ‘Beds not Bombs: Exploring the archives of anti-nuclear medical campaigning and protest’. Delegate Paul Sims reports back on an event that...
As East and West squared off at the height of the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear attack was all too real. Armed with stark facts about the potential impact of the bomb, a group of doctors and nurses launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament.The archive of this...
The Wellcome Library has curated and launched Medact’s 60 year old archive covering our recent history and that of our predecessor organisations MCANW (Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) and MAPW (Medical Action for the Prevention of War). The launch...
Elena Carter, project archivist at the Wellcome Library, gives a tour of the newly-catalogued archive of Medact. Beds not bombs - highlights from the Medact archiveWatch this video on...
