Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australia Section). (1919-)

Function
Social action organisation
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-628096

Biographies

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was formed at a congress in Zurich in May 1919. Its genesis stemmed from a joint tour of the USA by British suffagist Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence and Hungarian feminist Rosika Shwimmer in 1914. In 1915, the Sisterhood for Peace (SIP) was formed in Melbourne, and in 1919 SIP members travelled to attend the conference in Zurich. SIP then reconstituted itself as the Australian section of the WILPF. Its headquarters remained in Victoria when WILPF branches were later established in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian section was formally separated from the Victorian branch in 1920. Aside from campaigning for international disarmament and an end to all war, WILPF has taken action on a wide range of social justice issues.

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Selected resources (25)

Australian Women's Register

  1. W.I.L.P.F. bulletin / Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, N.S.W. Branch
    [1966-1996]
  2. Peace and FreedomJournal of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section : Peace and Freedom
    [1962-]
  3. Peace and FreedomJournal of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section : Peace and Freedom
    [1962-]
  4. Worth Fighting For!
    Fryer Library with research by Yorick Smaal
    [2008]
    Published: University of Queensland
    Series: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/
  5. The quest for peace as I have known it in Australia
    Moore, Eleanor M. (Eleanor May)
    [[1949]]
    Published: s.n.
  6. Greenwood, IreneAustralian feminism : a companion Caine, Barbara 429-430 : Greenwood, Irene
    Caine, Barbara
    [1998]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  7. Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998
    Suzanne Fabian, Morag Loh
    [2000]
    Published: Hyland House
  8. Australian Feminism: A Companion
    Caine, Barbara
    [1998]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  9. The University of Melbourne Archives: Eva Pethybridge Papers (1943 - 1963)
    Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers. Includes material relating to the Australian Federation of Women Voters.
    87/172
  10. The University of Melbourne Archives: Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1939 - 1950)
    Copies of "Four Lights", Vol. 1, No. 5 1941 - Vol. IX, No. 8, February 1950; publication list of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; pamphlets; miscellaneous publications.
    87/184
  11. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Records of Peace Education Project (W.A.) (1941 - 1984)
    Addresses, articles, conferences, constitutions, correspondence, declarations, extracts, histories of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, information sheets, minutes, notes, papers, poems, policies, plays, press releases, programmes, reports, submissions, tributes, writings.
    ACC 5272A
  12. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Western Australian Branch) (1942 - 1996)
    As well as a large number of letters, the papers include conference papers, histories, minutes, newspaper cuttings, petitions, press releases, reports and submissions. The papers are concerned with Amnesty International, the Peace Institute of Australia, the United Nations and other bodies concerned with peace, as well as WILPF itself and its projects, such as nuclear disarmament.
    MN 1408
  13. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: [Collection of information relating to the Women's International League for Peace and Feedom, WA Branch] (c. 1970)
    PR11959
  14. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section, Records (1915 - 1973)
    Correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newsletters, photographs and printed items related to Australian and international peace movements. Also includes papers of Anna Vroland and Eleanor Moore and documents concerning WILPF International, Australian Aborigines, conscription and women's rights. Also, correspondence between the New Zealand section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Australian section of the same League, 1 July 1958-8 January 1967.
    MS 9377
  15. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1943 - 1995)
    The papers comprise correspondence, circular letters, International Executive minutes and reports, Australian Section minutes and reports, various submissions and annual reports, copies of constitutions of the International and Australian Sections, press releases and printed material. There is material relating to the history and aims of WILPF and files documenting correspindence between international sections and with head office in Geneva. Some of the correspondents are Margaret Holmes, Gertrude Baer, Anna Vroland, Bronwen Meredith and Sir Garfield Barwick.
    NLA MS 7755
  16. Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Queensland Branch, Records (1960- - -)
    Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, newspaper cuttings, press releases, financial records, publications, articles, notes, ephemera.
    UQFL251
  17. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NSW Branch, Records
    Minutes of executive and monthly meetings 1960-1978; annual reports 1960-1982; correspondence 1961-1989; history of WILPF (NSW) 1990; subject files on campaigns, 1961-1989, including foreign bases on Australian soil, French atomic tests, chemical and biological warfare, disarmament, justice for Aborigines, opposition to uranium mining and the Vietnam War.
    MS MSS 5395
  18. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Vivienne Abraham Papers (1938 - 1989)
    The collection includes correspondence (mostly with G.A. Bishop), research material, notes, cuttings, ephemera, printed material and other papers relating to the Federal Pacifist Council, conscientious objectors, War Resisters' International, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Pacifist Movement of Victoria, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Pledge Union, Religious Society of Friends, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peacemaker and other pacifist and peace movements.
    MS 9152
  19. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( Australian Section) (1915 - 1973)
    Records, 1915-1973, include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newsletters, photographs and printed items related to Australian and international peace movements. Also includes papers of Anna Vroland and Eleanor Moore and documents concerning WILPF International, Australian Aborigines, conscription and women's rights. Also, correspondence between the New Zealand section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Australian section of the same League, 1 July 1958-8 January 1967.
    MS held
  20. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks (1993 - 1994)
    A series of 17 interviews with women associated with the South Australian International Women's Day Committee, founded in 1938. The interviews are biographical in structure and also include information about a range of other organisations, including the Union of Australian Women, Communist Party of Australia, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women's Liberation Movement and Women's Electoral Lobby. The interviews were conducted in conjunction with a project to organise the Committee's archives and prepare a new history for publication. The two research officers, who were also the interviewers, were employed initially with funding from the Commonwealth Jobskills program and then with support from the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee and the Department of the Arts. Individual details are as follows: OH 210/1 Hutchin, Linda, (1913- ). OH 210/2 Howe, Valerie, (1923- ). OH 210/3 Poulton, Mavis, (1933- ). OH 210/4 Forte, Margaret, (1917-2001), OH 210/5 Hall, Bev, (1943-). OH 210/6 Fisher, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), (1925-). OH 210/7 Edmonds, Flo, (1919-). OH 210/8 Miller, Beryl, (1926-). OH 210/9 Robertson, Mavis, (1932-). OH 210/10 Bell, Irene, (1906-1995). OH 210/11 Cook, Maureen, (1920-). OH 210/12 Brannigan, Molly, (1924-). OH 210/13 Tapp, Eulalie, (1917- ). OH 210/14 Lean, Marie, (1931-) OH 210/15 Picone, Cathy, (1949-). OH 210/16 Blackburn, Jean, (1919-2001). OH 210/17 Alexiou, Kay, (1922-).
    OH 210
  21. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Records of Anna Vroland (1947 - 1966)
    Printed material related to Aboriginal affairs, 1947-196, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Includes 'Constitution of Aborigines Advancement League (Victoria)', 23 August 1965 and financial statement, 23 August 1966. Also The Council for Aboriginal Rights Report April, 1957; and reports, pamphlets re Aboriginal rights. Also list of members and non-members of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1963 and other printed material.
    MS held
  22. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Meredith Stokes (1971 - 1988)
    The collection consists principally of secondary material relating to a wide range of issues relating to women, human rights and the environment. It includes some correspondence, circular letters, newsheets, articles and speeches, conference documents, printed ephemera, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous journals. There are a few pages of notes written by Stokes on different topics, and two published poems and the draft of an article by her also. The activities and publications of several organisations are documented in the collection. They include the Women's Electoral Lobby, the Canberra and South-East Region Environment Centre, the Canberra Programme for Peace, Canberra Women for Survival, the Registry of Women Artists, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section) and the Committees in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean.
    MS 9486
  23. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Vivienne Abraham (1938 - 1989)
    The collection includes correspondence (mostly with G.A. Bishop), research material, notes, cuttings, ephemera, printed material and other papers relating to the Federal Pacifist Council, conscientious objectors, War Resisters' International, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Pacifist Movement of Victoria, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Pledge Union, Religious Society of Friends, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peacemaker and other pacifist and peace movements.
    MS 9152
  24. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Margaret Holmes Papers (1923 - 1981)
    Personal papers of Margaret Holmes, some relating to her involvement with the Australian Student Christian Movement, the World Council of Churches and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The collection includes diaries, financial papers, conference and travel notes, a notebook containing some handwritten ASCM minutes, travel brochures, correspondence and photographs. Further correspondence of Margaret Holmes is contained in the records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (MS 7755).
    MS 9034
  25. Murdoch University: Irene Greenwood talks with Grant Stone (1983)
    Irene Greenwood talks about formative years, her marriage, other aspects of her private life, social conditions in Western Australia, Katharine Susannah Prichard, her involvement with various organizations including the United Nations, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the film Woman of Peace, feminists in Western Australia and her bequest to Murdoch University. 1. Formative years to marriage 2. Involvement with U.N. and W.I.L.F. 3. Donald Stuart 4. K. S. Prichard 5. Recent deaths / family influences 6. Filming Irene Greenwood : woman of peace 7. Recent events, public-private life and summer school 8. No more closed doors...bequest to Murdoch University
    SPECIAL COLLECTION QG 305.420924 G816S 1

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