There seem to be daily protests going on around the world at the moment for multifarious reasons and it got me thinking about the first street demonstrations I witnessed first-hand in England as a teenager back in the Stone Age.For several years at Easter in the early 1960s there was a “Ban the Bomb” march from the Berkshire village of Aldermaston to London, a distance of roughly 80 kilometres. Aldermaston was targeted because it was the home of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE). Living in nearby Reading, as a child I often cycled past that place without having the slightest clu…
