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Recordiad sain / Audio recording: Thalia Campbell
Campbell, Thalia
(Interviewer)
Phillips, Elen
(Interviewer)
Oral history interview with artist, banner maker and peace activist Thalia Campbell (née Childs), with occasional contributions from her husband, Ian Campbell. The interview focuses primarily on her experiences of the Women for Life on Earth march from Cardiff to Greenham Common in August-September 1981, and the subsequent establishment of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. She also reflects on the process of designing and making protest banners.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2026.54.1
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Campbell, Thalia
Association Type:
Date: 1980s - 1990s
Place: Greenham Common
Creation/Production
Thalia Delphine Campbell (née Childs) was born in Torquay in 1937. Her father had a tailor's shop on the seafront. Influenced by her grandmother who had witnessed the Suffragettes clashing with the police in early 20th century London, Thalia became politically aware from a young age. She completed a two year teacher-training course at Matlock College, Derbyshire, and became a primary school teacher. In 1959, she met her husband, Ian Campbell. They had four children in the 1960s. The family moved to Wales in the late 1960s. Between 1973-6, Thalia studied for an art degree at Aberystwyth, and eventually became an extra-mural lecturer for the college. In 1981, she was one of the founders of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, and became well-known for making banners to display on the military base's perimeter fence.
Curadur / Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru.
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewer
Place: Pembroke
Period: 2017
Acquisition
Made-in-House, 26/8/2026
Techniques
Digidol | born digital
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