Development and Peace
Development and Peace may refer to:
Hugh Brock
Hugh Brock( 1914–1985) was a lifelong British pacifist, editor of" Peace News" between 1955 and 1964, a promoter of nonviolent direct action and a founder of the Direct Action Committee, a forerunner of the Committee of 100.
Hugh Brock was a conscientious objector in World War II.
In May 1940, in the face of new defence regulations and demands in parliament for the banning of" Peace News", its printer refused to continue printing it and, at the same time, the Wholesale Newsagent Association, which handled two- thirds of the circulation, refused to distribute it any longer.
Alternative printing arrangements were made by the editor, Humphrey Moore, and Hugh and his brother, Ashley,( A H Brock) agreed to ignore any potential threat under the regulations and, with peace groups across Britain, created an efficient voluntary distribution chain.
Brock took on the role of assistant editor of" Peace News" in 1946 and became editor in 1955.
He shifted the focus of Peace News towards campaigning for nuclear disarmament, nonviolent direct action and the movement for colonial freedom.
In 1955 he appointed the American academic Gene Sharp to Peace News to cover the Civil Rights Movement.
At that time the newspaper was the official organ of the Peace Pledge Union( PPU) but this formal link was broken in 1961.
He left" Peace News" in 1964.
Between 1946 and 1952" Peace News" published more than 160 articles dedicated to the discussion of Gandhi's relevance to the West.
During the 1950s Hugh Brock played a significant role in the growth of nonviolent protest in Britain.
In November 1949 the PPU had set up a Nonviolence Commission to study nonviolent resistance and the ideas of Gandhi.
In December 1951 some members formed' Operation Gandhi' to organise nonviolent direct action directly inspired by Gandhi.
Among their aims were the withdrawal of US troops from Britain and an end to Britain's production of atomic weapons.
Brock was secretary of this group.
Its activities began with a sit- down outside the War Office on 11 January 1952.
Eleven protesters squatted in front of the War Office, having first notified the police.
The protesters did not resist arrest and pleaded guilty to the charges against them, following principles of nonviolence.
There were other protests at Aldermaston, Mildenhall, Porton Down and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
The protest march to Aldermaston in 1952 involved just 35 people and paved the way for the much larger Aldermaston Marches that began in 1958.
In 1957 Hugh Brock was one of a committee that arranged protests against British testing of the H-bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific.
The committee later became the Direct Action Committee, which organised the 1958 Aldermaston March.
With the formation in 1960 of the Committee of 100, which organised civil disobedience against nuclear weapons on a larger scale, the Direct Action Committee merged into the new organisation.
After leaving" Peace News" Brock continued to be involved with peace campaigning until his death in 1985.
He kept a large number of papers, which were donated to the University of Bradford by his wife Eileen.
The Hugh Brock Memorial Library, Kitwe Zambia, was established in his memory.
Howard Clark (pacifist)
Howard Clark( 6 March 1950 –28 November 2013) was an active pacifist who was Chair of War Resisters' International( WRI) from 2006 until his sudden death from a heart attack.
As well as having played an important role in the WRI from the 1980s, he had been an active contributor to the British pacifist magazine," Peace News".
Howard Clark was born in Bath into a devout Methodist family and his father was a minister.
He was a large, energetic man who suffered from nystagmus, otherwise known as “ dancing eyes ”.
He became a pacifist around the time he went to the University of East Anglia in 1968, where he met, and eventually married the daughter of a World War II conscientious objector.
At university he was a member of the British National Council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
On graduation he was offered a position as co-editor of" Peace News", a job he held until 1976.
In this time he helped to launch several campaigns and organisations including London Greenpeace, the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign, and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.
In 1976 Clark left" Peace News" and moved to York, where he became a member the editorial collective of" York Free Press", an alternative newspaper.
He became an active campaigner against nuclear power, undertaking a solo cycle tour round all the UK nuclear power sites.
In 1980 he moved to Bradford where he studied and worked as assistant to Michael Randle on the Alternative Defence Commission that produced the report," Defence without the Bomb."
During this period that he also helped write the 1983 Peace News/ Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament publication" Preparing for nonviolent direct action".
In 1985 he joined the WRI London office.
In the early 1990s he travelled regularly to the Balkans to support the anti-war groups that had formed there.
He became impressed with the civil resistance movement in Kosovo, which led to the publication of several works, such as" Civil Resistance in Kosovo".
In 1997 he became an Honorary Research Fellow of the Albert Einstein Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded by Gene Sharp.
In the same year he resigned from his staff position with WRI but continued to be active with" Peace News" and the WRI executive.
In 2006 he was elected Chair of WRI, and started teaching a postgraduate programme at a university in Spain.
The following year he launched the website" Civilresistance.info".
In 2013 Howard Clark was awarded an honorary PhD from Coventry University in recognition of his research and publications on Kosovo.
Justice and Peace
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Record Mirror
Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors.
Launched two years after the" NME", it never attained the circulation of its rival.
The first UK album chart was published in" Record Mirror" in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for Radio 1 and" Top of the Pops", as well as the US" Billboard" charts.
The title ceased in April 1991 when United Newspapers closed or sold most of their consumer magazines, including" Record Mirror" and" Sounds", to concentrate on newspapers.
In 2010 Giovanni di Stefano bought the name" Record Mirror" and relaunched it as an online music gossip website in 2011.
The website became inactive in 2013 following di Stefano's jailing for fraud.
Humphrey Moore
Humphrey Sims Moore( 17 April 1909 – 15 August 1995) was the founder of" Peace News", the British pacifist magazine.
Moore was a Quaker who had been born in Samoa where his father had been teaching.
He joined the No More War Movement and embraced various socialist causes, while working as a journalist.
In 1933 he became editor of the National Peace Council's publications.
Working with a peace group in Wood Green, London, Moore and his wife, Kathleen( playing the role of business manager), launched" Peace News" with a free trial issue on 6 June 1936.
With good distribution possible through Moore ’s contacts through the National Peace Council, the new magazine rapidly attracted attention.
Within six weeks, Dick Sheppard, founder of the Peace Pledge Union proposed to Moore that" Peace News" should become the PPU ’s paper.
Early contributors to this new organ of the PPU included Gandhi, George Lansbury, and cartoonist Arthur Wragg.
Sales of" Peace News" peaked at around 40,000 during the so- called Phoney War following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and before major land battles in Europe.
In May 1940, in the face of demands in parliament for the banning of the paper, the printer and distributors stopped working with" Peace News".
However, together with the typographer Eric Gill, Hugh Brock and his brother Ashley, and many others, Moore continued to publish" Peace News" and arrange for distribution around the UK.
At more or less the same time Moore faced a conscientious objector's tribunal at which he was exempted from war service.
Humphrey Moore ’s emphasis on" Peace News" having a single- minded anti-war policy was increasingly being challenged as the war went on.
Others wanted greater emphasis on building a peaceful society once hostilities ended.
In 1940 the PPU appointed John Middleton Murry to edit the paper, asking Moore to stay on as assistant editor.
Moore eventually resigned in 1944 to join the" News Chronicle".
Later, he worked on newspapers in Birmingham.
List of Record Mirror number-one singles
The" Record Mirror" is a former British weekly pop music newspaper.
From 1955 until 1962, the" Record Mirror" compiled its own record chart which was used by many national newspapers.
It formed as a rival to the existing chart published by" NME".
The" Mirror"'s chart was based on the postal returns from record stores that were financed by the newspaper—rival chart," NME", was based on a telephone poll.
On 22 January 1955, the" Mirror" compiled its first chart using figures from 24 shops.
The first chart- topper was" Mambo Italiano" by Rosemary Clooney, with the newspaper having compiled a Top Ten.
The chart was expanded from a Top Ten to a Top Twenty on 8 October 1955.
In the early 1960s some national newspapers switched to using a chart compiled by" Melody Maker" and, ultimately, the cost of collecting sales figures by post led to the chart's demise.
On 24 March 1962, the paper stopped compiling its own chart and started publishing" Record Retailer"'s Top 50.
Record charts in the United Kingdom began life on 14 November 1952 when" NME" imitated an idea started in American" Billboard" magazine and began compiling a hit parade.
Prior to 15 February 1969, when the British Market Research Bureau chart was established, there had been no universally accepted chart.
During this time the BBC used aggregated results of charts from the" Mirror" and other sources to compile the" Pick of the Pops" chart.
However, according to The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles& Albums, the" NME" is considered the official British singles chart before 10 March 1960.
After that date and until 1969 a chart compiled by" Record Retailer" is considered the official British singles chart.
Dean Martin's song" Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" was the first to have a number- one in the" Record Mirror" chart but not to be awarded the top spot in" NME"'s chart.
There are five more songs that, like Martin's, reached number- one on the" Record Mirror" chart but are not classified as number- one by the UK Singles Chart.
Additionally, the" Record Mirror" and other charts differed about what they classified as the top song of the year.
" Record Mirror" classified The Everly Brothers'" All I Have to Do Is DreamClaudette" as the top single of 1958 while the UK Singles Chart best- selling single of that year was Elvis Presley's" Jailhouse Rock".
Furthermore, despite never reaching number- one, Pat Boone's" Love Letters in the Sand" was classified by" Record Mirror" as the best- selling song of 1957; the song entered the chart at number eleven on 13 July and, later, charted in the top three positions for 9 consecutive weeks.
This is because the top lists for the whole year, were based on a points system.
It has to be noted that Tony Jasper's Top 20 book( which takes info from Record Mirror) does actually fall into mistakes between August& December 1958, as Tony says there was no chart for the first week of August, but there was.
The charts he prints for 9th Aug onwards are all dated wrongly.
The 9th Aug is the 2nd Aug, the 16th is the 9th& so on until 20th Dec He then fails to print the 20th Dec chart.
From 1959, he gets it correct again.
Though through this mistake, he misses a top 20 entry by Martinas& His Orchestra" Cha Cha Momma Brown", which sneaked into the chart at# 18 on 20th December 1958,& then quickly fell out again.
It has to be said that it's not actually Tony's mistakes.
The problem is that the British Library copies for 1958 are badly damaged& can not be viewed.
So,
Tony has taken the 1958 charts from the" 5 Years Ago" section featured in the 1963 Record Mirror.
Unfortunately when the" 5 Years Ago" charts were printed, one chart was printed twice& they are then all a week behind.
Then, 20th Dec 58 is missed out.
It corrects from 27th December chart( which featured in" 5 Years Ago" on 28th Dec 1963.
War and Peace (disambiguation)
War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy.
War and Peace may also refer to:
Peace News
Peace News( PN) is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom.
From later in 1936 to April 1961 it was the official paper of the Peace Pledge Union( PPU), and from 1990 to 2004 was co-published with War Resisters' International.
News from Nowhere (disambiguation)
News from Nowhere is book by William Morris.
News from Nowhere may also refer to:

Question: Are Record Mirror and Peace News from the same country?
Answer: yes