A unique display illustrating the activities of Bristol University scientists during the Cold War is running until November 30.

This free exhibition, by the University’s Special Collections, entitled
For the love of peace: Bristol scientists at work, explores the political climate at the time on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 

Members of the public can find out about the arms race and the development and use of nuclear weapons.  The exhibition highlights the attitudes of scientists, such as the Nobel Prize winner Cecil Powell and Sir Charles Frank, to the dangers of nuclear weapons, their involvement in campaigns for peace and their advocacy of the peaceful use of science.

Hannah Lowery, Archivist in Information Management, said: ‘This exhibition illustrates the activities of Bristol scientists outside the laboratory and within the greater world of politics and international affairs.’

The exhibition is located in the main library hall and at the entrance of Special Collections, Arts and Social Sciences Library, Tyndall Avenue. 

Opening times until November 30, Monday to Thursday, 9.45 am to 11 pm and Friday to Saturday 8.45 am to 6 pm.

The exhibition is part of Archive Awareness Month [September 2003].  It is one of many events organised in Bristol and around the UK and the Republic of Ireland aimed at promoting and displaying the wealth of information and life-long learning material available and accessible to all in the country’s archives and record offices.