Margaret Minhinnick

This audio clip is from a series of 100 life history interviews with environmental campaigners in the UK, 1970-2020. A quotation from this recording features in the book Voices for Change, published by UCL Press in November 2026 (available in print as well as a free PDF download). The full interview, along with the summaries, transcripts and recordings for this and the rest of the interview collection, is available at the British Library (Sound and Moving Image Collection, under the shelf-mark C2037). For more information, including educational materials and other resources, visit the Oral History of the Environmental Movement project website at www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ohemQuotation:Margaret Minhinnick: nuclear, I think we did stuff about, it said why are we having more nuclear expansion even in that time.Barbara Brayshay: And of course that’s very topical in Wales wasn’t it.Margaret Minhinnick: It was topical in Wales, yes. Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance involved in that. Yes. Cor, yes, just if- What happened, started happening campaign groups get onto you and say, look, is there a chance that you’re covering this or that? So you know at the beginning it was like me thinking, being proactive.Barbara Brayshay: You thinking of topics.Margaret Minhinnick: Topics and doing it and then it became the other way around.British Library catalogue number: C2037/22 Project clip number: 40