Collection
Women's Museum of Australia Research Library
You’ll be amazed at the stories we hold…
The Women’s Museum of Australia has a reference library of books, videos and audio cassettes relating to Australian women’s history.
We welcome research projects and encourage research proposals.
For access, please contact the curator at curator@pioneerwomen.com.au for an appointment.
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100 years of Australian History - VHS 81 (2004)
Author:
Published: in 2004 by mitchell 12/95
Subject: Aboriginal Rights
Format: VHS
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101 Ideas from History News (1975)
Author: American Assn for State & Local History (ed)
Published: in 1975 by American Assn for State & Local History
Dewey No.: 069
Subject: USA USEFUL HINTS & IDEAS taken from newspapers etc, fundraising, exhibitions, publicity, community involvement, conservation, securiyt, education programmes SOCIETY/ USEFUL IDEAS
Format: Book
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1996 Arts Directory : A Guide to Principal Organisations (1996)
Author: Dep. Arts & Cultural Affairs
Published: in 1996 by NT Government
Format: Book
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200 Years of Australian Cooking: The Captain Cook Book (1970)
Author: Babette Hayes
Published: in 1970 by Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd
Dewey No.: 6415994
Subject: Australian cookery; cookery
Format: Book
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8 Whisky Charlie Victor: A Kimberley Story (2003)
Author: Margaret Heseltine
Published: in 2003 by M.Heseltine
Dewey No.: 920.72
Subject: Heseltine, Margaret. Western Australia. Women. Biography. Australia. Kimberley. Country life.
Format: Book
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A Banner Bold: The Diary of Rosa Aarons (2000)
Author: Nadia Wheatley
Published: in 2000 by Scholastic Press
Subject: Eureka Stockade(Ballarat Vic) - Juvenile fiction
Format: Book
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A Biased Memoir (1997)
Author: Ruth Cracknell
Published: in 1997 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 792028092
Subject: A /B author, author
Format: Book
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A Book of South Australia: Women in the First 100 Years (1936)
Author: Women's Centenary Council of South Australia
Published: in 1936 by Rigby for the Women's Centenary Council of S.A
Dewey No.: 994.23
Subject: Women artists. Women pioneers. Australia. South Australia. Women History.
Format: Book
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A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian women writers of the nineteenth century (1988)
Author: Debra Adelaide
Published: in 1988 by Penguin Books
Subject: Women authors.Australia-19th century
Format: Book
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A Bunch of Strays (1996)
Author: Marie Mahood
Published: in 1996 by Central Qld Univ Press
Format: Book
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A Cargo of Women (1992)
Author: Babette Smith
Published: in 1992 by Sun
Dewey No.: 994.02
Subject: Princess Royal (Ship) Women convicts -- Australia -- Biography. Australia.
Format: Book
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A Colonial Woman: The Life And Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle (1986)
Author: Patricia Clarke
Published: in 1986 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 920
Subject: Mowle, Mary Braidwood, 1827-1857. Manners and customs. Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies. Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850. Diaries. Women pioneers. Biography. Australia. New South Wales. History. 19th century. Braidwood. Canberra. Eden / Twofold Bay. Social life and customs.
Format: Book
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A Crowning Achievement (2005)
Author: Kay Saunders
Published: in 2005 by Nat. Museum Of Australia
Subject: Study In Aus. Beauty business & Charity
Format: Book
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A Drift of Derwent Ducks: Lives of the 200 Female Irish Convicts Transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849 (2005)
Author: Trudy Mae Cowley
Published: in 2005 by Research Tasmania
Dewey No.: 364.374
Subject: Australasia (Ship). Women prisoners. Women convicts. Biography. Convict labor. Penal colonies. Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900. Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Format: Book
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A Fence Around The Cuckoo (1992)
Author: Ruth Park
Published: in 1992 by Penguin
Dewey No.: 823.3
Subject: Park, Ruth, d. 2010. Childhood and youth. Park, Ruth. Social conditions 20th century. Novelists. Women authors. 20th century. Biography. Literature New Zealand. Autobiography. English. fiction. Australia
Format: Book
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A Field of Short Poppies: A Journey Into the Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People (1992)
Author: Melissa McCord
Published: in 1992 by Doubleday
Dewey No.: 920.094
Subject: Australia-History-20thCentury-Biography
Format: Book
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A Fitting Heart: Alice Springs at the Red Centre (1984)
Author: Val Whalan
Published: in 1984 by NT Dept of Education
Subject: stories of Alice Springs
Format: Book
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A Girl at Government House (1982)
Author: Helen Vellacott(ed)
Published: in 1982 by Currey O'Neil
Subject: Stikes,Agnes,B1867; Servants-Australia-Biography
Format: Book
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A Girl Like Alice: The Story of the Australian Helen Keller (1990)
Author: Valerie Thompson
Published: in 1990 by North Rocks Press
Format: Book
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A History of the Royal Adelaide Hospital (1982)
Author: J. Estcourt Hughes
Published: in 1982 by The Board of Management, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Dewey No.: 362.110
Subject: History of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
Format: Book
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A Lady In A Thousand: Eliza Davies A Biography (1994)
Author: Barbara Ward
Published: in 1994 by [B. Ward]
Dewey No.: 919.404
Subject: Davies, Eliza. Women. History. 19th century. Voyages and travels. Australia. Description and travel
Format: Book
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A Life By Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2004)
Author: Siobhan O'Brien
Published: in 2004 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 700.920994
Subject: Bio. Art & Lives of F.Broadhurst
Format: Book
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A Little Bird Told Me (2011)
Author: Kasey Chambers
Published: in 2011 by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia
Dewey No.: 782.421
Subject: Chambers, Kasey. Country musicians. Australian Women country musicians -- Australia -- Biography. Country musicians.
Format: Book
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A Little Bit of Magic (1994)
Author: Hazel Hawke
Published: in 1994 by Brolga Publishers
Subject: Thoughts for women, Hazel Hawke
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A Living History 150 Years of Women's Rights (1998)
Author: St John Fisher College
Published: in 1998 by St John Fisher College
Subject: Women's Rights, Outstanding women(USA)
Format: Book
