'Fill the jails' : identity, structure and method in the Committee of 100, 1960 – 1968
The Committee of 100 (C100) (1960 – 68) were a British anti-nuclear protest group 
who campaigned for mass non-violent direct action (NVDA) in an effort to force the 
government to revise its defence policy. The formation of C100 created tensions with 
the already-established Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), whose leaders 
objected to C100's commitment to civil disobedience. The two anti-nuclear campaigns 
had some membership overlap but always remained separate. Until now, any 
investigation of C100 has been incorporated within wider studies of CND or has been 
quantitative in method. This thesis therefore addresses a historical gap by employing a 
life history approach to examine C100 as a distinct group. Drawing upon oral history 
interviews with twenty-four C100 members the resulting analysis reveals new aspects of 
C100's innovative structure and method, and identifies the particular nature of those 
who joined the campaign. 
A new image of first wave anti-nuclear activists emerges when focusing on C100 
protestors. The respondents reveal motivations for campaign engagement that contrast 
with those of earlier representations of CND supporters. They were inspired by a 
common interest in global civil rights concerning human health and survival and a need 
to actively challenge rather than merely petition the authorities. Significantly, many 
C100 members came from left-wing, progressive or anarchist backgrounds. They were 
an erudite group with regard for knowledge, despite many putting conventional 
education on hold to fully engage in the campaign. 
This thesis examines C100's libertarian nature, and the extent to which its membership 
managed to be anti-hierarchical in structure, ethos and policy. It explores tensions 
within C100 concerning limits and definitions of NVDA that changed over time and 
came to radicalise the campaign. A biographical approach also reveals significant 
factors around C100 prison experience concerning issues of class and gender. This 
thesis serves to situate C100 for the first time in its own right on the socio-political map, 
both historically and globally.
Three Lives of Saodat: Communist, Uzbek, Survivor
article examines and compares those three lives of Saodat to find the ways that the subject constructs her history and the ways that history constructs Saodat's subjectivity. In problematizing "experience" as evidence for the historian, Joan Scott writes, "it is not individuals who have experience, but subjects who are constituted through experience." However, Scott does not treat experience as unitary or determining: "... subjects do have agency. They are not unified, autonomous individuals exercising free will, but rather subjects whose agency is created through situations and statuses conferred on them... these conditions enable choices, although they are not unlimited."' In this essay, I will compare three of Saodat Shamsieva's life stories, from three acutely different historical moments, to argue that her agency is seen in her ability to interpret her experience and to re-cast her identity as new politics and new narratives enable and constrain her choices.
Self-responsibility in health care/promotion: motivational factors.
This paper explores motivational factors at play in self-responsibility in health care and promotion. If people do not take responsibility for their health status, is it because they can not or will not? "Can" refers to the ability or skill to do something, while "will" refers to intention and effort. Each of these factors are analyzed in terms of their role as a cause of behavior in self-responsibility for the health status. Educational intervention to motivate self-responsibility is suggested as well as empirical research in how people attribute health outcomes.