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Women's Peace Army. (1915-1919)

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-728075

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Australian Women's Register

The Women's Peace Army was established on 15 July 1915 at the offices of the Women's Political Association, in an attempt to mobilise the women in Australia who opposed all war, regardless of political party membership. It was to be a fighting body to destroy militarism 'with the same spirit of self-sacrifice that soldiers showed on the battlefield'. 'We war against war' was the motto of the Women's Peace Army. Their flag took the feminist colours of purple, green and white. The most well-known members were Vida Goldstein, president, Cecilia John and Adela Pankhurst. With autonomous branches in Sydney and Brisbane, the Women's Peace Army projected a radical, militant image with its socialist anti-war ideology and attracted large numbers to its sometimes controversial public meetings. Other tactics included participation in peace demonstrations, support for peace candidates at elections, petitions to members of parliament and practical help to those disadvantaged by war. It participated in the anti-conscription campaigns of 1916 and 1917. With the end of the Great War, the Women's Peace Army went into recess on 18 December 1919.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Put up the Sword
    Pankhurst, Adela
    [1915]
    Published: Women's Peace Army, Melbourne
  2. The Women's Peace Army
    Gowland, Patricia
    [1980]
    Published: Fontana/ Collins, Melbourne
  3. Women in protest movements: the Women's Peace Army and the Save Our Sons Movement.
    Francis, Rosemary
    [1984]
    Published: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
  4. Heroines and heroes: sexual mythology in Australia 1914-1918
    Shute, Carmel
    [1972]
  5. Blood votes and the bestial Boche: a case study in propaganda
    Shute, Carmel
    [1976]
  6. The unwritten history of Adela Pankhurst Walsh
    Summers, Anne
    [1980]
    Published: Fontana/Collins, Melbourne
  7. The Goldstein Story
    Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira)
    [1973]
    Published: Stockland Press, Melbourne
  8. The Woman Voter
    Goldstein, Vida
    [1909-1919]
  9. Radical Melbourne : a secret history
    Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill
    [2001]
    Published: the vulgar press, Carlton North, Vic.
  10. Papers of various Australian women
    Manuscript drafts of biographical papers on the following: Anderson, Mary (11 p.); Brennan, Jennie (7 p.); Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay (13 p.); Deakin's daughters, Brookes and Ivy Deakin; Rivett, Stella (Deakin) Lady; White, Vera (Deakin) Lady (14 p.); Goldstein, Vida (21 p.); Holman, May (16 p.); James, Britomarte (23 p.); Lyons, Dame Enid (17 p.); Rich, Ruby (19 p.); Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (36 p.); Sweet, Georgina (22 p.); Waterworth, Edith (16 p.); Woinarski, Gertrude Zichy- (10 p.); Young, Jeanne (10 p.).
    267 pages
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 842
  11. Papers of Leslie Moira Henderson
    [1880 - 1961]
    Copies of photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1945 of Vida Goldstein 1949-1961, including an obituary and a personal impression by L. M. Henderson and a transcript of a radio talk by Margaret Clarke.
    0.01 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 1444
  12. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949.
    [1966]
    Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966.
    0.01 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 1637
  13. The Goldstein chronicle
    [c. 1950 - c. 1973]
    History of the Goldstein family, comprising twelve chapters: A very rising settlement; The young man goes west; The Hawkins family; J. R. Y. Goldstein; The Leongatha Labour Colony; Vida Goldstein and the women's suffrage movement; Vida's electoral campaigns and social work; H. H. Champion's "nnconventional autobiography"; H. H. Champion in Australia: the maritime strike; H. H. Champion: adventures in journalism; H. H. Champion and Bernard Shaw; Elsie Champion and the Book Lovers' Library. Created by Leslie M. Henderson.
    0.01 m, 168 pages
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  14. Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn.
    [1943]
    Press cuttings book "presented to Edith How Martyn for Women's Service Library, London, by Vida Goldstein, Melbourne Australia 1943."
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  15. Letters, diaries and lectures
    [1902 - 1919]
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  16. Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein
    [Press cuttings ]
    National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
    BIOG

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