Sarah Hipperson (née Hanlon) (1927 – 8 October 2018) was a

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and peace campaigner who spent 17 years living at the

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began on 5 September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life ...

RAF Greenham Common Royal Air Force Greenham Common or more simply RAF Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, station in the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham in the England, English county of Berkshire. The airfi ...

protesting against the siting of American nuclear

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s in the United Kingdom. In 1982, she founded Catholic Peace Action. Her

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resulted in over 20 imprisonments and several appearances in court. She lived to see the transformation of Greenham Common back into use by the public and was one of the last four women to leave the camp. She appeared as herself in the documentary ''Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain''. In Hipperson's book, ''Greenham Common: Non-Violent Women v The Crown Prerogative'', she documented her legal challenges during her anti-war campaigning.

Personal life

Hipperson was survived by her husband, five children, six grandchildren and one great grand child.

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{{Authority control 1927 births 2018 deaths British anti-war activists British midwives English justices of the peace