Pauline Armstrong theses and other papers, 1991-2002

MLMSS 8728

fonds

1991-2002

431587

0.17 metres of textual material (1 box)

Pauline Armstrong (1928-2001) was a businesswomen, political activist and biographer. Born in Camberwell, Victoria, the eldest child of Charlotte and Arthur Watkin. Her mother and grandmother were Labor Party members, who become disenchanted and joined the Communist Party.

In 1949 Pauline became secretary to Cedric Ralph, a lawyer who managed the Communist Party representation at the Royal Commission into its activities in 1949-1950.

Pauline set up a small business - CAC Duplicating and Offset Printers, employed mainly mothers and only women.

She was passionately involved in the Save Our Sons Movement during the Vietnam War, and made a definitive study of this for her Masters thesis.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection

Bound volume
A History of the Save Our Sons Movement of Victoria 1965-1973. MA thesis, Monash University, 1991

Bound volume
A Critical Biography of Frank Hardy. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 1997

Folder
Photocopies of reviews and newscuttings concerning the monograph: Frank Hardy and the Making of Power without Glory, as well as obituaries of Pauline, 2000-2002.

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