| Summary: | Ann Moyal, AM, FAHA, is a graduate with first class Honours in History from Sydney University. In 1949 she went to London to take up a scholarship at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and worked also as a research assistant at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. From 1954-1958 she was personal research assistant to Lord Beaverbrook, working with him on his historical books of the period 1914-1945. She returned to Australia to become Assistant Editor and a co-founder of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University. From 1962-1965 she was jointly Research Fellow and Research Associate of the History Department, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU and the Australian Academy of Science, founding a centre for the history of Australian Science. From 1971 she lectured and researched in science policy, science and society, and the history of science and technology at the New South WalesInstitute of Technology, and from 1977-1979 was Director, Science Policy Research Centre, Griffith University. As an independent scholar since 1980, she has been Visiting Fellow at many universities including the University of Sydney, Macquarie and Queensland Universities and the Australian National University. She founded the Independent Scholars Association in 1995 and became its first president. Her autobiography Breakfast with Beaverbrook became the basis of an ABC film on her life in 1996.
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