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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘They thought we were all communists’: Bradford’s peace studies department turns 50

The first cohort of staff and students in peace studies at Bradford University assemble for a portrait, October 1974
The first cohort of staff and students in peace studies at the University of Bradford assemble for a portrait, October 1974. Photograph: Handout

There have been a number of memorable Peace v War football matches over the years, with terrific performances from players including the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and the eminent Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz (or so the names on the back of the players’ jerseys would have you believe).

But the most crushing victory remains the first, the 15-0 hammering by the University of Bradford’s peace studies department over Kings College’s war studies department.

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