- ReferenceARCHDALE
- TitleBetty Archdale Scrapbooks
- Date1934-06-08 - 1935-04-05
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Extent3 volumes
- Scope and ContentScrapbooks include maps, newspaper cuttings, telegrams, photographs, correspondence, itineraries, dinner menus, pamphlets, train tickets, programmes, memoranda, membership cards, spider diagrams, magazines, programmes for horse racing meetings at the Freemantle Trotting Club in Richmond Park, pamphlets on Wanganella Estate in New South Wales, copy of J C Williamson Ltd (film company) magazine programme for the performance of 'Blue Mountain Melody' at the King's Theatre, copy of Where and How tourists magazine, copy of The Native Bear Book Australia, tourist brochure for Toowoomba, Queensland, copy of the rules of Vigoro and the 1931 Toowoomba Vigoro team, tourist guide to New South Wales.
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- Institution nameMarylebone Cricket Club
- Conditions governing accessOpen
- LanguageEnglish
- HistoryHelen Elizabeth (Betty) Archdale was born in Paddington, London on 21 August 1907. Her mother Helen was a suffragette, while her godmother was Emmeline Pankhurst. She was educated at Bedales in Hampshire (where she learnt to play cricket) and St Leonards in St Andrews, Scotland. She then studied at McGill University in Montreal, achieving an MA in Economics and Political Science in 1929. Archdale captained the first-ever England Women’s cricket team tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1934-1935, where England played three Tests against Australia Women, winning two and drawing the other. They also defeated New Zealand Women by an innings and 337 runs at Christchurch. Archdale was due to return to Australia in 1939 for another tour but it was cancelled due to the Second World War. Instead, Archdale joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, where she led a group of Navy women away from the Japanese threat to Singapore. Archdale received an MBE in 1946, and became a Principal of a Women’s College at Sydney University, as well as a broadcaster and lecturer. Archdale was one of the first ten women to become an MCC member when female membership was permitted by MCC in 1999. Archdale died in Sydney, New South Wales, on 11 January 2000. The records in this collection consist of scrapbooks compiled by Archdale during the England Women’s tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1934-1935.
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