A brief chronology of the key moments in the history of Peace News
- 1935, autumn: Humphrey Moore brings together group in Wood Green, north London, to plan pacifist paper
- 1936, 22 May: Peace Pledge Union, launched in 1934, becomes formal organisation
- 1936: Peace News publishing office set up at 59 Waterfall Road, London N11
- 1936, 6 June: Peace News Group publishes first issue of Weekly Newspaper serving all who work for Peace
- 1936, 25 July: PN adopted as paper of the PPU
- 1937: Peace News becomes limited company within PPU
- 1938, Jan: PN office moves to 17 Featherstone Buildings, London WC1
- 1938, Nov: PN office moves to 3 Blackstock Road, London N4
- 1940, May: Eric Gill hand-sets two issues because printers are afraid of prosecution for subversion
- 1943: PN takes over publication of PPU literature: pamphlets regularly produced
- 1950: PN subtitled International Pacifist Weekly
- 1953: PN sales office opens in New York
- 1954: Airmail edition begun for US market
- 1958: PN gives office space to Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War
- 1959: PN moves into 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, along with Housmans Bookshop
- 1961: PN (and Housmans) separate from PPU
- 1963: Finsbury Park Typesetters set up specially for PN
- 1971: Peace News Trustees is set up as parent body for PN and Housmans Bookshop
- 1974: PN goes fortnightly, in magazine format, and moves to 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham
- 1974: Finsbury Park Typesetters cease typesetting for PN
- 1974: PN ?scoops? Col Stirling?s private army: next year awarded flong by Granada TV
- 1975: PN features largely in trial of BWNIC 14 at Old Bailey
- 1977: PN publishes real name of ?Colonel B?, anonymous witness in Official Secrets trial of ABC 3
- 1978: PN found guilty of contempt of court by Lord Chief Justice, but finding overturned by House of Lords
- 1988: PN reverts to newspaper format
- 1990: PN becomes monthly paper of War Resisters? International, at 55 Dawes Street, London SE17
- 1994: PN moves, with WRI, back to 5 Caledonian Road
- 1995: PN reports on COPEX libel actions against Campaign Against Arms Trade and National Peace Council and is promptly sued itself
- 1996: High Court strikes out COPEX libel action against PN
- 1999: PN changes format to theme-based in-depth quarterly magazine
- 2005: PN separates from WRI and reverts again to a monthly newspaper