The collection contains papers and materials compiled and created by Christopher F. Cornford, a British artist, writer, and activist who taught at the Royal College of Art in London, where he was head of the Department of Humanities from 1962-1979, and the University of the Third Age in Cambridge. It contains student-published newspapers and newsletters, academic senate resolutions, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, strike documents, statements, leaflets, press releases, notes, and letters.

Christopher F. Cornford (1917-1993) was a British artist and writer who was the great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He was a member of the British Communist Party in the 1930s who later taught at the Royal College of Art in London, where he was head of the Department of Humanities from 1962-1979, and the University of the Third Age in Cambridge. He maintained an interest in radical politics and labor organizing, in particular the student protest movements of the 1960s, and in the 1980s served as the chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Cambridge, in addition to attending anti-nuclear protests and designing posters for the peace movement and the Green Party.

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