People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Morris, Eileen Daphne

Birth

4 May, 1918
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Death

4 October, 1999 (aged 81)
Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Cause of Death

heart disease

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English
• Welsh

Education

• Sydney Girls' High School
• University of Sydney
• Australian National University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• communist
• feminist
• historian (general)
• political activist
• women's activist

Key Events

• Balmain ironworkers' strike (NSW, 1945)

Legacies

• Gollan Prize (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History)

Key Organisations

• New Housewives' Association (NSW)

Political Activism

• Communist Party (NSW)
• Communist Party (ACT)
• Women's Liberation (group) ACT
• Sydney Greens (party)

Workplaces

• State Library of New South Wales
• Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (NSW)
• Australian National University (library)
• Australian National University (history)