Metadata: Brodie, Morris (1923-2007) peace campaigner
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- BRODIE
- Title:
- Brodie, Morris (1923-2007) peace campaigner
- Title (official language):
- Brodie, Morris (1923-2007) peace campaigner
- Creator/accumulator:
- Morris Brodie
- Date(s):
- 1982/2007
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 5 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Morris Brodie, 1982-2007, relating to his Chairmanship of Ex-Services Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, mainly correspondence, minutes, publications and financial statements and material relating to French veteran movements notably Association Republicaine des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre (ARAC), Mouvement National et International Contre la Rehabilitation du Fascisme et des Fascistes, Association Nationale des Cheminots Anciens Combattants, Resistants, Prisonniers et Victimes de Guerre (ANCAC) and Association Nationale des Ancients Combattants de la Resistance (ANACR).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Brodie was born in 1923 to Jewish immigrant parents and was the youngest of six children. At the outbreak of World War Two his two older brothers joined the Army, one subsequently being killed at D-Day; he took on duties of a firewatcher at night till old enough to enlist in the RAF where he served as a Navigator till the end of the war. At 23 he became a student, subsequently taking a first class honours degree in Economics at the University of Aberystwyth, and being elected President of the Students' Union in his final year. He then worked three years in India for the Indian Oxygen Company, followed by study at the Sorbonne in Paris and then returned to England in 1954 to join Joseph Lucas Limited as an economist.In 1957 he started on a career in management education in various colleges including the Henley Management Centre. Between 1966 and 1984 he carried out a number of assignments as a Management Consultant for the United Nations Development Programme. On retirement he was a voluntary consultant to Oxfam for several years, as well as a founder of a local Amnesty Group. Along with his wife Hilary, whom he married in 1955, and his daughters, he supported CND from its foundation and when a special CND group for ex-servicemen was formed in 1983 by John Stanleigh he became involved, ending up as Chairman and arranging its submersion into CND as its membership declined through death and illness. He edited two books of members' memoirs. He was also a consultant to BASIC, an Anglo-American organisation relating to armed conflict and was a member of the Institute for Law and Peace.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brodie, Morris
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Rescue and resistance
- World War II
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=BRODIE
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
