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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Guzin Najim's the promise : an Iraqi mother's desperate flight to freedom / Sandra Lee. (2003)
Author: Sandra (Sandra E.) Lee
Published: in 2003 by Bantam Books, 2003.
Dewey No.: 920.72
Subject: Biography, Mothers -- Iraq -- Biography.
Format: Book
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Guzin Najim's the promise : an Iraqi mother's desperate flight to freedom / Sandra Lee. (2003)
Author: Sandra (Sandra E.) Lee
Published: in 2003 by Bantam Books, 2003.
Dewey No.: 920.72
Subject: Biography, Mothers -- Iraq -- Biography.
Format: Book
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Half a Century in Arnhem Land (1981)
Author: Ella Shepherdson
Published: in 1981 by Ella and Harold Shepherdson
Dewey No.: 994.295
Subject: Ella. Shepherdson, H. Shepherdson, Harold. Djinang/Dyinang people. Religions. Christianity. Methodist Church. Indigenous peoples. Pacific. Missions. Aboriginal Australians. Description and travel. Social conditions. East Arnhem Land. Central Arnhem Land . Pictorial works. Milingimbi. Elcho Island. Yirrkala
Format: Book
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Half the Race: A History of Australian Women in Sport (1991)
Author: Marion Stell
Published: in 1991 by Collins Angus & Robertson
Dewey No.: 796 082
Subject: Women Athletes-Australia-History, Athletics
Format: Book
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Hand In Hand: The Story of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney (1979)
Author: D.G. (MBBS FRACP) Hamilton
Published: in 1979 by John Ferguson Pty Ltd
Dewey No.: 362.110994
Subject: Story of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Kids Sydney; Medical/hospital RA Sydney
Format: Book
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Handbook for Mental Nurses: (Handbook for Attendants on the Insane) (1939)
Author: Royal Medico-Psychological Assn
Published: in 1939 by Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
Dewey No.: 618 362
Subject: Nursing; Medical
Format: Book
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Hartley Street School (1992)
Author: Kate Holmes
Published: in 1992 by national Trust
Subject: education, school history 1930-1964
Format: Book
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Hats Off To WAB (1987)
Author: Adair Dunsford
Published: in 1987
Dewey No.: 305.406
Subject: Women in Agriculture & Business; 90 years; Agriculture/women
Format: Book
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Hazel Phillips - VHS 65 (2007)
Author: Hazel Phillips
Published: in 2007 by ABC Talking Heads
Subject: Actress/Stage/TV/Film
Format: VHS
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Healing The Heart: 60 Years of Alice Springs Hospital 1939-1999 (1999)
Author: Pauline Cockrill
Published: in 1999 by P Cockrill
Dewey No.: 36211099
Subject: medical 60 years of Alice Springs hospital*-+; Medical/A/S Hospital
Format: Book
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Hear the Train Blow (1992)
Author: Patsy Adam-Smith
Published: in 1992 by Penguin Books Ltd
Subject: BIO Patsy Adam-Smith; Australian Authors; Social/History modern
Format: Book
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Heart Country: A woman's inspiring life in the outback (2001)
Author: Kerry McGinnis
Published: in 2001 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 30772092
Subject: A/B McGinnis,Kerry Novel
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Heart of the Country (1997)
Author: Ian Hamilton
Published: in 1997 by Wakefield Press
Dewey No.: 307720 994
Subject: BIO Mayors-Australia-Social/rural conditions
Format: Book
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Hearts to Love & Hands to Save (1995)
Author: Marguerite Harris
Published: in 1995 by Calvary Hospital/Little Company of Mary
Dewey No.: 362 1109
Subject: Calvary Hospital (Hobart, Tas) - History Medical /Hobart Calvary Hospital
Format: Book
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Heather Osland - VHS 61 (2005)
Author: Heather Osland
Published: in 2005 by Australian Story
Subject: Convicted of Murder in 1994 1st in Australia-Victorian law changed after this case was reviewed-murder due to domestic violence can be argued even if there is no immediate threat
Format: VHS
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Hecate - 25th Anniversary Year (1999)
Author: Carole Ferrier (ed)
Published: in 1999 by Hecate Press
Dewey No.: 050
Subject: Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation , feminism , Social/women's liberation
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Helen Cole - VHS 20
Author: Helen Cole
Published: by Australia's only female Harbour Pilot Bunbury WA
Format: VHS
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Helen Springs Station (1992)
Author: Hilda Tuxworth
Published: in 1992 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory in association with the Faculty of Arts, Northern Territory University
Dewey No.: 994.295
Subject: Ranches. Northern Territory. History. Ranchers. Biography. Ranch life.Helen Springs Station, Helen Springs Station. Northern Territory.
Format: Book
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Henry Handel Richardson: The Getting of Wisdom, stories, selected prose and correspondence (1997)
Author: Susan & Catherine Lever & Pratt (ed)
Published: in 1997 by Qld University Press
Dewey No.: A 823.2
Subject: Stories/writings, author/Henry Handel Richardson
Format: Book
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Her Natural Destiny: The Education of Women in New South Wales (1986)
Author: Noeline Kyle
Published: in 1986 by New South Wales University Press
Dewey No.: 376/.994
Subject: History of girl's schooling in New South Wales: state education for girls, teacher training, technical education and private schools.
Format: Book
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Her Story: Australian Women in Print 1788-1975 (1980)
Author: Margaret Bettison
Published: in 1980 by Hale & Ironmonger
Dewey No.: 016.305
Subject: Published records of achievements of women in Australia. List of over 3000 books and journals by and about women
Format: Book
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Here for the Millennium: The Bold, Brave and Wise Women Who Won't Go Away (2000)
Author: Jocelynne A Scutt Dr.
Published: in 2000 by NT W.A.C
Dewey No.: 305.4
Subject: 10th Alicia Johnson Memorial Lecture 2000; Lecture 10th anniversary
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Hermannsburg: A Vision and a Mission (1977)
Author: Everard Leske (ed)
Published: in 1977 by Lutheran Publishing House
Dewey No.: 266
Subject: Mission Station Religion / Hermannsburg
Format: Book
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Hermansburg A Vision and a Mission (Adelaide)
Author: Everard Leske, (Ed)
Published: in Adelaide by Lutheran Publishing House
Dewey No.: 266
Subject: history of Hermansburg Mission , church,
Format: Book
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Heroic Australian Women in War: Astonishing Tales Of Bravery From Gallipoli To Kokoda (2004)
Author: Susanna De Vries
Published: in 2004 by Harper Collins
Dewey No.: 940.308
Subject: Biography. History. 20th century. Women in war. World War, 1914-1919. World War, 1939-1945. Australia. Participation, Female. Medical profession. Women World War 1. World War 2
Format: Book