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BOX 1?Folders 1-2?Papers relating to meetings of the Historical and Archival Committee of the Benevolent Society, and the Royal Hospital for Women; newspaper clippings, minutes, correspondence, draft papers, research, etc. for a seminar on the history of the Royal Hospital for Women, ca. 1972-1990??Folder 3?Department ... |
The Catholic Migrant Centre has been crucial to the provision of support services to immigrants to Perth for over twenty years. The Catholic Episcopal Migrqation and Welfare Association was set up shortly after the end of World War Two to assist Catholic Children from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta who had been ... |
Estelle Thomson was a member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club, contributing flowers, paintings and drawings to the club’s annual wildflower show. She published Flowers of Our Bush (1929), a guide to Queensland wildflowers, which described and illustrated coastal species. From 1929 to the 1930s Estelle ran a weekly ‘... |
Madge Cope discusses the women’s movement in Western Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
16 sound tape reels.??Ryan talks about her family background; political discussions at home; general domestic situation; bubonic plague in 1900 and growing up in Pyrmont, N.S.W. She then describes her introduction to the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World); anti-conscription campaign; impact of WWI and the Russian... |
1 hour??Miriam Tonkin, nee Brunning, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She left school at 13 years of age to begin work. She was very active in the Eureka Youth League as a teenager and describes an intensive period working on the Communist Party’s Guardian newspaper. Miriam married in 1950 and she and her husband moved... |
Read more about Tanja Lietdke in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. German-born Tanja Liedtke took her first dance and theatre studies at the age of 8 in Spain. Her dance training continued at Elmhurst Ballet School, Surrey, and Ballet Rambert School London, ... |
Monash University M.A. thesis on the Save Our Sons Movement in Victoria 1965-73 (1991); folder of copies of cuttings containing reviews, review articles and comments (at least one unpublished) on Pauline Armstrong’s book ‘Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January... |
5 hours 26 minutes??Andi Sebastian was born in Bordertown, South Australia. She majored in English and Drama at university. In 1977 Andi joined the Women’s Unit of the Premier’s Department and established the Women’s Information Switchboard. She became involved in sex industry politics when she helped the Scarlet Allia... |
The War Widows’ Guild of Australia was formed in 1945 in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey OBE, CBE, widow of Major-General George Vasey. In 1947 the Queensland State Branch was formed. The Guild aims to watch over and protect the interests of war widows by lobbying politicians and offering its members friends... |
Amirah Inglis was a devoted and active member of the Communist Party in Australia during the politically turbulent Menzies era. Her autobiographical works describe the difficulties and confusion of growing up a migrant in Australia, born of Polish-Jewish parents. She has also written essays, reviews and books on Papua ... |
1 hour 39 minutes??Gaye Barnes, nee Robinson, grew up in Angle Park, Adelaide where her parents ran racing stables. Gaye explains how, within an eighteen month period aged 19 and 20, she had three abortions for personal convenience, and the severe psychological effects on her. She describes a life-altering religious ex... |
The Women’s Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. The group wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All-women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide ... |
The collection comprises personal papers, including on Lutton’s studies and the Girl Guides; personal and work files from Papua New Guinea; personal and work files from Perth; records relating to Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA); records from Lutton’s time in Canberra; research... |
MS 7583 comprises correspondence, board minutes, executive records, conference records and papers relating to submissions and campaigns. There are also papers relating to the International Council of Women (24 boxes).??The Acc GB 1993/1502 instalment comprises records of the National Council of Women of the Australian ... |
Sylvia Curley qualified as a nurse in 1926 and spent her early years of nursing in country New South Wales. She worked for the Canberra Community Hospital (later known as the Royal Canberra Hospital) from 1938 until her retirement in 1966 as deputy matron. In her ‘retirement’ years she ran a nursing employment agency i... |
Papers of Mrs Grace (Gretta) Margaret Lewis, wife of Major Lancelot Lewis, comprising correspondence, papers on various topics, photographs, newspaper cuttings, diaries, notebooks, minutes of the Women’s Defence Services 1939-1940, and correspondence and newspaper cuttings on National Flower Day. Also comprising papers... |
The Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers was founded by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor General, Sir Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson, later Lord Novar, soon after the beginning of World War I. The object of the organisation was: The promotion of a friendly feeling amongst the relations of member... |
Sylvia Kinder was active in both the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement and the Sydney Women’s Liberation Movement. As a teacher she was involved with the South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) which questioned sexist teaching practices within schools. She helped bring changes in education standards designed t... |
Personal papers. Correspondence and other papers relating to his parliamentary life, Australian Labor Party, election campaigns, work with Australia-China Council. Conference reports, brochures and publicity material relating to the international peace movement of 1940’s and later. Personal correspondence, diaries and ... |
Genevieve Rankin’s commitment to social justice, peace and the environment has directed her career in local government, education and community activism. She first ran for parliament in 1991 as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Sutherland. She re-contested the seat in 1995, but again... |
Photographs – 1 glass photonegative Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The War Widows’ Guild Of Australia was established in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey CBE, OBE. The broad aims of the Guild were to watch over and protect the interests of war widows. Qualification for membership of the Guild was restricted to widows of men who were killed on active service or whose deaths w... |
Written by Elizabeth Guy after the death of Ellinor Walker on 7 November 1990 aged 97 years Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Correspondence files of Laurence Pollinger Ltd relating to Christina Stead. Contains one autographs letter, one autograph postcard, 135 typed letters and several telegrams from Stead to Laurence Pollinger Ltd written from Surbiton, Canberra, New York, Sydney and elsewhere, 1969-1981. The letters are inter-filed with a ... |
Records consisting of minutes of annual, monthly and committee meetings and annual reports, together with an unpublished history of the club. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Contents include minutes, alphabetical files, pictorial material correspondence relating to the Australian Women’s Digest, women in war, women in the Public Service and women and the Church Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
This collection includes (1) 9 minute books of meetings, Sept. 1946-Oct. 2000; (2) 3 attendance books relating to meetings, Feb. 1955-Oct. 2000; (3) correspondence, 1955-2000, including correspondence regarding the push allowing for A.W.L.A. members to participate in the ANZAC Day March; (4) photograph album, inscribed... |
Includes correspondence, drafts, reviews, cuttings and other papers. Drafts include The golden fish, Mines and men, The division of love, Venom, Dream run and various short stories. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Louise Joy stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrandyte at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 March 1996. Her political career followed an important career in social work, locally and abroad. Daughter of medical missionaries, Louise Joy completed her tertiary educatio... |
Collection of articles about Australian tenpin bowler, Cara Honeychurch Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 4 December 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Record Repository State Library of South Australia Reference SRG 760 Date Range 1984 - 2001 Quantity 0 0.26 m Access No access to membership records prior to 2027 Records of the International Women’s Day Committee (SA) Incorporated comprising an outsize ‘Women’s Roll of Honour for the 20th Century in South Australia Vo... |
Jessie Street, Feminist, Pacifist, Socialist and Human Rights Worker. Part 1 Presents a commentary on Jessie Street from some who knew her and worked with her, and readings from her autobiography ‘Truth Or Repose’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tc... |
40 minutes??Dr Winifred talks about her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia, bush schooling, Gladston and Adelaide High Schools, medicine scholarship, two other female medical students 1918-1922 – Dorothy Adams and Ricca Hubbe – Royal Adelaide Hospital, returned servicemen, marri... |
National Archives Australia (Melbourne). ‘M’ – Mackie to Musgrove.??The Trust required that applications for grants be lodged on their prescribed application forms, the format of which varied slightly over the years, but which always requested the following general details: name and address of applicant, whether perman... |
3 tape reels (ca. 90 min)??Folkloric recording, Mrs Oldfield speaks about other local families; clearing the land; her husband Doug Oldfield; social activities; farm chores; living conditions in 1930s; her children; Ash Wednesday bushfire; her dressmaking business; her wedding celebrations; lack of medical services; an... |
Two letters to Sapper W.E. Douglas Hamersley, 6th Field Co., Aust. Engineers, A.I.F. Frame, 20 October and 3 November 1918. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Mary Maguire was one of the first female presenters for ABC Local Radio in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mary Maguire was born and raised in Broken Hill. Her mother, too, was locally-born but her father had come to Australia as a migrant from England and worked as a winder house driver in the mines. With her older sist... |
A cryptic drama of tensions and manoeuvres among a group of people. The film explores possibilities of expression outside traditional narrative. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Born in Poland in 1944, Anna Volska migrated to Australia with her mother when she was seven years old. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1962 and acted with the Old Tote Theatre Company for two years. It was there she met John Bell and they married in 1965. Following John’s career, th... |
Essie Coffey looks at life of the Aboriginal people in the NSW town of Brewarrina and reflects on how life as changed since she made the film, My Survival As An Aboriginal, in 1978. Subtitled by SBS Australia.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details... |
Lillian Armfield was one of the first female plain-clothes detectives in Australia. She joined the New South Wales Police Force as a special constable in 1915 and retired 34 years later in 1943 as a special sergeant 1st class. During that time she helped runaway girls return home and dealt with female suspects or victi... |
Farms Gathering Proceedings, Material Culture Icons, Banners, Newsletters, Programs, Cultural Partnership Agreement, Rural Women’s Network Events Kit Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Margaret McLean, a founding member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria in 1887, became Melbourne’s foremost advocate of votes for women. An active and well-known feminist, Margaret McLean was the first person to sign the Women’s Suffrage petition. She signed the petition as Mrs. William McLean, possib... |
Folder contains a Percy Grainger labelled Envelope (marked 446 – 1,2,3 Melba to Rose and Percy Grainger) which contained letters to Percy Grainger and Rose Grainger from Nellie Melba. Most are undated (with archivists estimates). 10 original letters in Melba’s hand, 2 telegrams with Percy Grainger’s reply written on on... |
The Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace was held in November 1943, organised around the theme ‘A War to Win, a World to Gain’. In a feat of organisational excellence, given the restrictions placed on interstate travel during war time, ninety-one women’s organisations from around Austra... |
Annual reports (incomp.); minutes 1980- Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GLADYS OWEN?1. The Bridge Workshops, 1930s?2. The Bridge, 1930s?3. Sydney Harbour, ca. 1950s?4. Convent at Vaucluse, ca. 1930s?5. The Bush Pool, ca. 1930s?6. The Shed, ca. 1930s?7. The Big Tree, ca. 1930s?8. The Bush Dairy, ca. 1930s?9. Camden Country, ca. 1930s?10. [Church in Spain], ca. 1920s-19... |
Lillian Wells was the first moderator of the New South Wales synod of the Uniting Church (1977) . On 31 December 1977 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (civil) for services to the church. |
Diaries (1886-1959); personal papers; correspondence, including that with her husband Martin Edward Jull; material re conscription referendum (1916), Royal Commission on administration of W.A. Health Act (1938), schools medical service (1920’s), University of W.A. (1922-1941), National Council of Women (1915-1939); and... |
Lorna Bell was born in Kunanalling and went to school in Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. She married Rex Mitchell in 1934 and they had one daughter, Jan. Rex died in 1985, aged 83. During the Second World war she joined the Red Cross where she became known as ‘Mrs Bottletops’ as she collected aluminium tops from bottles for... |
On 1 January 1954, Pattie Menzies was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (Civil). The official citation, conferring the GBE to her under her married name, Mrs R. G. Menzies, read: “In recognition for her years of incessant and unselfish performance of public duty in hospital work, in visiting... |
In 1972 Pat Eatock became the first Aboriginal to stand for Federal Parliament in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). She participated in the Aboriginal Embassy and Women’s Liberation in 1972. In 1973 she became the first non-matriculated mature aged student at the Australian National University(ANU), graduating as... |
Red Cross Archives series reference: NO22 Comprises meeting minutes and papers from a range of National Office sub-committees including those administering: National Youth Committee, Youth and Education Advisory Committee, Women Personnel Sub-Committee, Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee, Conference of Directors o... |
Box number 249 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Margaret Farmer was a social worker and psychotherapist. She was a foundation member of a group of child care centres established in the 1970s in Caulfield, Victoria. She was a volunteer visitor for 17 years of the Anti-Cancer Council Breast Cancer Support Service. Margaret Farmer was awarded her B.A. Dip. Social Studi... |
The papers relate to her membership of the National Council of Women of Australia, National Women’s Advisory Council, National Women’s Consultative Council, Federation of University Women, and International Council of Women. Includes reference files, correspondence, minutes, speeches, press clippings and articles. Auth... |
Papers of Winifred Hilliard comprising details about Ernabella designs and their development, copies of magazine articles, papers given, notes, report, biographies, letter and transcript of interview. (Photocopies only). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCP... |
1. Anonymous letter to Smith Elder & Co., 1853. 2. Estimate of character of C. H. Spence. 3. Letter to editor of Cornill Magazine, 1873. 4. Holograph postcard to Miss Windeyer. 5. Letter from E. Nanson to Miss Spence. 6. Letter from Emily Clark to Lady Windeyer. 7. Letter from Emily Clark to Henry Parkes.????A guide to... |
Joyce, an Australian pianist, speaks about her first piano; school; music lessons; her hands; early life; Percy Grainger; conductors; her first concert; agents; her overseas tours; her interest in the harpsichord; her own pianos; studying in Liepzig; her teachers; her recording career; playing in films; Frank Calloway;... |
Jan Marsh is a significant member of the trade union movement in Australia, arguing many of the Australian Council of Trade Union’s submissions in national wage and industry cases. Throughout her career she has advocated not only for the improvement of women’s opportunities in the labour movement, but also for more equ... |
Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes... |
Nalda Searles is nationally recognised for her baskets and artworks using materials found in the bush. Working within the landscape her art reflects a deep commitment to nature and culture. Her inspirational workshops and involvement with Aboriginal women have seen new methods of making grass basketry and sculpture spr... |
Reports of W.A.A.A.F. Officers, 26 Jan.-3 Oct. 1942 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-9-42 [7 Aug. 1942] – 1-6-43 [27 May 1943]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-6-43 [17 May 1943] – 1-1-44? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/... |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: V30]??This series comprises two volumes containing details of those enrolled with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments and available for work at military, civilian and temporary hospitals as well as convalescent homes around Melbourne and surrounding districts from 1915 to 1919.??Es... |
Personal File – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
3 digital audio tapes (ca.158 min.)??Prof. Kerr, art historian, recalls her upbringing in Sydney (late 1930-early 1950s), then onto Brisbane, Qld in 1951; her early education; her undergraduate study at the University of Queensland (late 1950s); meeting her future husband at the University and marriage in 1960; her hus... |
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes etc. dealing with women’s achievements and rights, music scores, photographs, pamphlets, songsheets; minutes of the Equal Pay Conference, 1958; items about Vida Goldstein, British women police, Eleanor Mary Hinder, Henrietta Szold, and general women’s matters; postage stamps and ... |
1 hr 59 min?Oral history?audio cassette; TDK AR60; stereo Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Monica Maughan’s acting career spanned many media and genres, including stage, television, cinema, comedy, drama and ballet. Throughout her career she was awarded two ‘Erik’ awards, three Green Room Awards and two AFI awards. Monica Maughan, was born in Tonga, where her father, Harold Alfred Wood (1896-1989) was head o... |
Glass photographic negatives of teaching aids, toys, crafts etc. at Errol Street School (one item October 1914); various photographs of children in kindergartens, with one of the Lady Gowrie Centre, Carlton, 1940, the Forest Hills Holiday Home 1937, and a children’ miniature theatre, 1887; photographic slides of “Mooro... |
83 min 14 sec??Mrs Adam-Smith became a Voluntary Aide working in hospitals in North Queensland for three years. The nursing consisted mostly of inoculations, malaria and worms were rife. Causalities were from New Guinea. Mrs Adam-Smith discusses contraceptives and their availability. Clare Stephenson is mentioned- she ... |
Rosemary Joan Brudenell Derham was the wife of David Plumley Derham, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1968 to 1982. Rosemary took a keen interest and concern in local engagement and child welfare. She belonged to a number of women’s organisations and also served on the Committee of Management of the ... |
I. Alphabetical files, 1902-1991 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/4-22)?II. Marbig PVC Divider Foolscap Files, 1988-1991, established in 1990 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/23-24) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 9616 comprises five files of “whites”, ie. Copies of Jean Whyte’s official letters and minutes during her employment with the National Library of Australia, with letters and minutes of A.P. Fleming, the National Librarian 1970-1973, and drafts of articles. Colour transparencies taken at Whyte’s farewell from the Nat... |
Digitised soundfile (82 minutes). Interview conducted in Melbourne on 7 June 2010. Created 19 November 2020 Last modified 19 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Women’s Club was founded in 1901 by Dr Mary Booth to provide a place where women interested in public, professional, scientific and artistic work ‘might spend their leisure moments and associate together.’ The first committee also included Lady David and Rose Scott. It began with 100 members – rising to 807 by 1929... |
2 hours 20 minutes??Joyce Candy, nee Cope, was born in Magill, South Australia, where she grew up much involved in community activities, particularly sport and church. She met her future husband at a Liberal Country League meeting. They married in 1942 and Joyce left her job with the Government Printing Office to move ... |
6 min 2 sec. Actuality footage, Television news footage.?16mm/b&w/silent??The first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps to serve overseas since the corps was formed in 1951 have arrived in Singapore. They are Captain Heather Gardner of Malvern, Victoria; Lieutenant Pam Smith of Padstow, NSW; and Warrant ... |
Sue Chilly is a staunch member of the Aboriginal rights movement, progressing reform both as an activist of groups such as the Australian Black Panthers, and as a field officer of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. Please note; this entry draws substantially upon an ASIO dossier on Sue Chilly. We understa... |
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