Erection date: 16/3/2025
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Stop killing the kids!
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Brian Haw. The longest personal peace protest in English history. Millions marched & went home. He stood defiant, day & night.
Parliament Square 2001 - 2011.
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Brian Haw by Amanda Ward Culver
Brian Haw (1949 – 2011) was one of the most visible, influential and determined peace campaigners of our times. In June 2001 he began a peace protest at Parliament Square in Westminster, where he remained for nearly ten years. His campaign is understood to be the longest continual protest in English history.
Day and night he campaigned for those affected by war. He asked our leaders to “Stop killing the kids”.
Artist Amanda Ward Culver created this statue to honour the personal sacrifice Brian made in the name of peace. Its home here at 52 Lambeth Road resonates; originally the Royal South London Dispensary for the Working Poor, the building became part of Bethlem Hospital as The Hospital of Nervous Diseases in August 1918, operating one of the first mental health outpatients’ departments in the country. Soldiers suffering from shellshock (now known as post traumatic stress disorder) in the First World War were treated here.
Thank you to everyone who has helped to ensure that Brian Haw’s protest is never forgotten.
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Permission to erect a statue in Parliament Square was, unsurprisingly, not granted. The alternative placement chosen is opposite the Imperial War Museum, and a park devoted to peace, and on a building that was at one time a hospital treating shellshocked WW1 soldiers.
March 2025: Guy Atkins informed us about an audio monument to Brian that can only be heard in Parliament Square through the website . This was made in 2008 by Guy Atkins, Amanda Ward, her late husband Michael Culver, audio producer Nina Garthwaite, sound artist James Bulley, and staff at the Museum of London (now London Museum). More information at .
The group that got this statue erected included: fellow campaigner and actor Michael Culver and actor Mark Rylance.
Site: Brian Haw + dispensary (2 memorials)
SE1, Lambeth Road, 52, School of Historical Dress
The dispensary was founded on this site in 1821 to distribute medicines and health advice to the local population. That operation probably ran out of a normal house, replaced in 1841 by this purpose-built property, which could be when the 'Royal' prefix arrived. For lack of funds the dispensary shut in June 1917. In 1815 Bethlehem Hospital had moved into St George's Fields, opposite, and in August 1918, it acquired this old dispensary building as its nervous diseases department. Here WW1 soldiers were treated for shell-shock. This closed in 1927 and in 1930 the building was taken over as the Elizabeth Baxter Hostel for Distressed Women and Girls. In 2016 the building was acquired to be the home of the .
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