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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Diane Cilento - VHS 12 (2004)
Author: Diane Cilento
Published: in 2004 by ABC Australian Story
Subject: Experiences-KARNAK Qld
Format: VHS
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Diary of a Girl in Changi: 2nd Edition Including The Changi Quilts (2002)
Author: Sheila Allan
Published: in 2002 by Kangaroo Press, London : Simon & Schuster
Dewey No.: 940.531
Subject: Allan, Sheila. Personal narratives, Malaysian. World War, 1939-1945. Singapore. Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Format: Book
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Dirty Linen (2010)
Author: Julie Burdis
Published: in 2010 by Julie Burdis
Dewey No.: 994.291
Subject: Tourism Ayres Rock Uluru Burdis, Julie,Ansett Anecdotes. Alice Springs 20th century. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park History. Tourism. Australia Central Australia.
Format: Book
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Disabled Athletes World Championship - VHS 86 (2002)
Author: Savage Louise- Ladmore Holly-Ballard Angie-Skelton Christie
Published: in 2002 by ABC
Subject: Gold Medalists 1998 4X4 Relay wheelchair; SPORT
Format: VHS
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Dog With One I: A History Of The Doig Family Of South Australia (1994)
Author: Robyn A. Hukin
Published: in 1994 by Literary Mouse Press
Dewey No.: 929.209
Subject: Buttfield family. Doig family. Scotland. Genealogy. Western Australia. South Australia
Format: Book
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Dolly Dalrymple (2004)
Author: Diana Wyllie
Published: in 2004 by Diana Wyllie
Dewey No.: 994.602
Subject: Biography of the first half-caste born in Tasmania. Daughter of a white sealer and a kidnapped Aboriginal girl SOCIAL/Half caste
Format: Book
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Don't Fence Me In (2000)
Author: Wendy McCarthy
Published: in 2000 by Random House Australia
Dewey No.: 30542092
Subject: Bio Wendy McCarthy; Feminists; Australia; SOCIAL-Feminism
Format: Book
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Donna Mulhearn - VHS 57 (2005)
Author: Donna Mulhearn
Published: in 2005 by ABC Australian Story
Subject: Aid Worker in Iraq-Palestine-Australia -A Human Shield in Iraq
Format: VHS
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Doreen Braitling Lecture 2014 by Des Nelson (2014)
Author: Doreen Braitling
Published: in 2014
Subject: Travel
Format: Pamphlet
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Doreen Braitling Lecture 2014 by Des Nelson OAM (2014)
Author:
Published: in 2014
Subject: Travel TRAVEL /Local History Notes
Format: Pamphlet
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Dot Collard - VHS 19 (2004)
Author: Dot Collard
Published: in 2004 by Message Stick
Subject: Aboriginal Woman's Story
Format: VHS
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Down Through the Years (2001)
Author: Nessie Bell
Published: in 2001 by N Bell
Dewey No.: A821.3
Subject: Poetry POETRY
Format: Book
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Down Through the Years (2001)
Author: Nessie Bell
Published: in 2001 by N Bell
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Down to Earth: The Story Of The Australian Women's Land Army In Victoria (1991)
Author: Mary Lowe (compiler)
Published: in 1991 by M.Lowe
Dewey No.: 994.504
Subject: Australian Women's Land Army. Biography. Women agricultural laborers. Victoria. World War, 1939-1945. Women in war. History. 20th century. Women in agriculture
Format: Book
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Down Under Quilts (2002)
Author: Deborah Segaert (ed)
Published: in 2002 by Down Under Quilts
Dewey No.: 746.97
Subject: Quilting, Australia, Periodicals. Patchwork, Quilts
Format: Book
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Dr Kerryn Phelps - VHS 64 (2001)
Author: Kerryn Phelps
Published: in 2001 by This is your Life
Subject: IST female President of AMA -Gay Supporter
Format: VHS
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Dr. A. D. Hensley: A Medical Life of Service (1989)
Author: Adair Dunsford
Published: in 1989 by Investigator Press Ltd
Dewey No.: 60 6952092
Subject: Medical Services, MEDICAL
Format: Book
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Dragon Boat Pink Ladies - VHS 87 (2004)
Author:
Published: in 2004 by Australian Story
Subject: Women With Breast Cancer; Medical
Format: VHS
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Drought, Dust and Destiny: Memories of Alice Springs 1961-1966 (2009)
Author: Patricia Nelson
Published: in 2009 by Historical Society of The Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 994.29
Subject: This paper tries to emphasise the daily living conditions in Alice Springs of the 1960's including the heat, dust, flies and the drought of 1958-1966
Format: Book
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Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945 - 1976 (1999)
Author: Anne Summers
Published: in 1999 by Penguin (Viking)
Dewey No.: B305.42092
Subject: AUT; Anne Summers 1945 -; JOURNALIST/FEMINIST
Format: Book
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Dune Is A Four-letter Word (2001)
Author: Griselda Sprigg
Published: in 2001 by Wakefield Press
Dewey No.: 919.423
Subject: Sprigg, Griselda, 1921-2003. Sprigg, Reg C. (Reginald Claude), 1919-1994. Women travelers. Mt Painter Sanctuary. Arkaroola Region. Simpson Desert. South Australia. Description and travel. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Format: Book
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Dust Storms in China Teacups: Ragless Family Heritage to Australia (1988)
Author: Margaret Ragless
Published: in 1988 by Investigator Press
Dewey No.: 999.209
Subject: Ragless Family heritage to Australia. Genealogy . South Australia
Format: Book
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Early Edition: My First Forty Years (1986)
Author: Ita Buttrose
Published: in 1986 by Greenhouse Publications
Dewey No.: 070.924
Subject: Aut Buttrose, Ita; Journalists. Australia. Journalism
Format: Book
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Early Settlers' Household Lore (1994)
Author: Mrs N Pescott
Published: in 1994 by Ballarat Historical Park Association
Dewey No.: 641.5994
Subject: Australian social customs; SOCIAL CUSTOMS
Format: Book
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Echoes of the Elsey Saga: A Research of Pioneers of the Northern Territory in the Epochal Days of the Elsey Station (1980)
Author: H T Linklater
Published: in 1980 by H.T. Linklater
Dewey No.: 994.290
Subject: Gunn, Aeneas J. (Aeneas James), d. 1903. Gunn, Jeannie, 1870-1961. Cattle properties. Biographies. Biography. Representation - Literature. Race relations. Attitudes. Elsey Station. Biography. Pioneers. Australia. Northern Territory. Biography. Gunn family. History
Format: Book