Pat Arrowsmith

Pat Arrowsmith

Pat Arrowsmith (born March 2, 1930) is an author [ [http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/somewhere_like_this.html Book Review of 'Somewhere Like This' by TrashFiction.com] ] and a famous British peace campaigner [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3575175.stm| BBC News - Peace campaigners return to Aldermaston] ] and lesbian.citation |title=Pat Arrowsmith |url=http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/patarrowsmith.html |periodical=The Knitting Circle |accessdate=2008-02-04 ]

Pat Arrowsmith was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, read history at Cambridge University, and then read Social Science at Liverpool University and at Ohio University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar. She is a co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

She stood against the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan, in his constituency of Cardiff South-East in the General Election of 1979. He was forced to curtail the customary acceptance speech on re-election as an MP due to her sustained heckling.

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