Identity area
Reference code
ZA COM MR-AAO-223
Title
Len T. Holden
Date(s)
- 1966-01-01 - 1992-12-31 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
Personal archive ; The collection spans the period 1966-1991, and consists mostly of papers and correspondence.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Len Holden was a Bedford Council member, and founder of the Bedford Anti-Apartheid Group. The group was active from the 1980s until 1991, lobbying companies and politicians to boycott the apartheid regime. Holden was also active in the Bedford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament throughout the 1980s.