Gilchrist, Roma Catherine (1909-1983)

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Feminist and Peace activist
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Roma Gilchrist was first a member of the Modern Women’s Club before joining the Union of Australian Women, Western Australian Branch. She was vice-president in 1954 and president from 1957 until 1971.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Roma Gilchrist200 Australian women : a Redress anthology Radi, Heather 225-226 : Roma Gilchrist
    Bosworth, Michal
    [[1988]]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  2. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  3. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Papers of John and Roma Gilchrist, 1927-1984 (1927 - 1984)
    The collection documents the Gilchrists’ involvement with various radical organizations, including the Modern Women’s Club, Union of Australian and the Workers’ Art Guild. There is material on communism, socialism, and working people. The papers at ACC 3532A, documenting their friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard which began in the 1930s, includes diaries (incomplete) for 1964 and 1969, envelopes from various countries, films (including film from Katharine Susannah Prichard's funeral) taken by John Gilchrist, letters from Prichard, manuscripts, publications, recordings and reminiscenses about Prichard by John Gilchrist. ACC 3801A deals mainly with Roma Gilchrist's involvement with the Women's Movement, 1940-1982. ACC 3255A & 5894A include certificates; conference papers; correspondence (much with the Union of Australian Women, 1962-1982); press cuttings of reviews of plays by the Workers' Art Guild (1954-1981); diaries of holidays in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and the USSR; files on the Humanist Society (1966-1968), disarmament, the Workers Art Guild, the Union of Australian Women and other subjects; histories; lists of the members of the Union of Australian Women and the Modern Women's Club; memoir of organisations and people they worked with; newsletters; notes and notebooks; photographs; plays (some written by the Gilchrists); poetry of John Gilchrist; programs; publications on communism, socialism and the working classes; reports; scrapbooks; songs; specifications; and other writings.
    ACC 3255A, 3532A, 3801A, 5894A

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  1. Gilchrist collection of photographs
    [ Photograph : 1950-1979 ]
    At WA State Library
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  2. Gilchrist collection of photographs, views of Perth, 1960s and 1970s
    [ Photograph : 1960-1970 ]
    At WA State Library
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  1. IMPORTS.—March 2.
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    ... Rome; 103 102 pkgs tobacco. Parbury, Lamb, and Co ; 1 cs, Mort and Co ; 4 css, Myers and Solomon 33 ... cs, Zions ¡ 21 pkgs, Ohessell and Co ; 13 pkgs, Murphy and Son ; 020 bri» mall liquor. Gilchrist. ... 290 tons coal. Scotia, Tasmania, Prompt, Brilliant, Agnes, and Catherine Agnes, from Noweastle ... 351 words
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  2. SHIPPING, MARL INFORMATION ARRIVALS YESTERDAY:
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    ... ; HEXHAM BANK, from Newcastle, 4.21 a.m.; ROMANIC, ROMA- NIC, from New Zealand, 4.53 a.m.: am. MONOWAI, ... Why- alla, 5 38 p m , NOORA from Sien house Bay, 6 45 pm TUGGERAH, from Catherine Hill Bi>, 11 16 p m ... CANOPUS for New cistle, 7 22 am, TUGGERAH, for Catherine Hill Bay, 7 53 am, SAMUEL BENBOW, for ... 812 words
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    ... Lonuon. o 8 a m TUGGERAH 1 from Catherine Hill Ba>, 6 52 p ni TO-DAY: MERKUR, from Singapore. 7 ... , LIONEL, for Brisbane 9 Glebe Island, p m , MONOWAI for Auckland, 5 Dtrllng Harbour, 3 p m" ROMA, ... DOLIUS, »trcam. Gilchrist. Wau and Sinder aon. Bl 1701: TASTERN. 5 Glebe Island, Macdonald. ... 859 words
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