British Pugwash, together with the Pugwash History Project, has started a project to organise and digitise the extensive Pugwash photo collection in the London office, which documents Pugwash activies from 1957 onwards.
The work is being carried out by staff, Executive Committee members and volunteers. We hope in the future to be able to put the photo database, with a search facility, on the Pugwash History website.
A key step towards providing a useful archive is to gather more information about the photographs, which document conferences and other Pugwash events. In many cases we have little or no information about the events and people shown in the photos.
The purpose of this blog is to appeal to those who have been a part of Pugwash for any information
on the photographs.
British Pugwash is the UK arm of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international network of scientists and experts on international affairs, which seeks to inform government and the public on matters relating to science and world affairs. It aims to bring scientific insight and reasoning to bear on threats to human wellbeing arising from science and technology, and above all from the threat posed to humanity by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It is concerned with questions of the social responsibility of scientists and the quest for an end to war itself.
on the photographs.
British Pugwash is the UK arm of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international network of scientists and experts on international affairs, which seeks to inform government and the public on matters relating to science and world affairs. It aims to bring scientific insight and reasoning to bear on threats to human wellbeing arising from science and technology, and above all from the threat posed to humanity by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It is concerned with questions of the social responsibility of scientists and the quest for an end to war itself.