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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Jill Jordan of Maleny Queensland - VHS 41
Author: Jill Jordan
Subject: Pioneer of the Co-operative Movement in Small Towns
Format: VHS
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Jill Kerr Conway - VHS 23 (2002)
Author: Jill Kerr Conway
Published: in 2002
Subject: The Road to Corain
Format: VHS
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Jillaroo: Station life in the outback (1990)
Author: Susan Cottam
Published: in 1990 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 636201092
Subject: Cottam - Susan - Correspondence; Jackaroo-Queensland - Correspondence; Outback experiences
Format: Book
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Jim & Annie on the Overland Telegraph (1997)
Author: Colleen Hines
Published: in 1997 by Colleen Hines
Dewey No.: 383.499423
Subject: Mary Ann Chapple1873-1960, Overland Telegraph Line (NT & SA), history, History telegraph line
Format: Book
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Joadja Creek: The Shale Oil Town & Its People 1870-1911 (1988)
Author: Leonie Knapman
Published: in 1988 by Hale & Ironmonger
Dewey No.: 994.46
Subject: Mining districts. History. Australia, New South Wales, Joadja Creek. Biography.
Format: Book
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Joan Sutherland (1962)
Author: Russell Braddon
Published: in 1962 by Collins
Dewey No.: 012.BRA
Subject: Bio Music Opera Joan Sutherland Music/Opera
Format: Book
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Joan Sutherland: A Tribute (1989)
Author: Moffatt Oxenbould
Published: in 1989 by Honeysett Publications
Dewey No.: 782.1
Subject: Bio Opera, Music/Opera
Format: Book
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Joanna Love/Gillian Hund - VHS 47 (2004)
Author: Joanna Love
Published: in 2004 by ABC Buisiness Sunday
Subject: 1st Woman to Publish a magazine in Australia: Sydney's Child
Format: VHS
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Joanna Mein - VHS 53
Author: Joanna Mein
Subject: 1st woman in Roulette Aerobatic team -woman pilot; RAAF; AVIATION
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Jones Store, Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory: A Social History of an Outback Store (2016)
Author: Peter Jones
Published: in 2016 by Peter Jones
Dewey No.: 994.295
Subject: Jones Store is a National Trust property in the heritage listed town of Newcastle Waters. A tiny community in the Northern Territory, Newcastle Waters is 270km north of Tennant Creek and 700km south of Darwin. For 50 years since 1935, the store operated as a general store, a butcher’s shop, bakery, and saddlery and in the late 1950s, became a residence for a family of Aboriginal-Chinese heritage until 1985. One of the oldest surviving buildings in Newcastle Waters, Jones Store has demonstrated its technical and architectural flexibility in surviving in the harsh Australian Outback environment.
Format: Book
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Josephite Story (1990)
Author: Marie Therese Foale RSJ
Published: in 1990 by St.Joseph's Generalate
Dewey No.: 282 942
Subject: The sisters of St.Joseph: Their Foundation & Early History 1866-1893, Mary MacKillop, Julian Tenison Woods, Religion/Nuns
Format: Book
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Journal of Northern Territory History (1994)
Author: Suzanne Parry (General editor)
Published: in 1994 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 994.290
Subject: Connection between Leichhardt's writing and it's mythology, establishment of Kormilda College, administration of justice during WW11 and deaths resulting from Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942.
Format: Book
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Journey from Venice: A Memoir (2000)
Author: Ruth Cracknell
Published: in 2000 by Penguin
Dewey No.: 155937
Subject: A/B Ruth Cracknell, deathy, love, family
Format: Book
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Journey to Equality: An Illustrated History of Women in the Queensland Police (2001, December)
Author: Tim Prenzler
Published: in 2001, December by Queensland Police Service
Format: Book
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Journey to Horseshoe Bend (1978)
Author: T.G.H. Strehlow
Published: in 1978 by Seal Books Rigby
Dewey No.: 266.41
Subject: Bio, T.G.H. Strehlow's journey to seek medical help, aboriginal legends, Travel in O/B N/T 1922
Format: Book
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Judith Wright: Collected Poems 1942-1985 (1996)
Author: Judith Wright
Published: in 1996 by Angus & Robertson
Dewey No.: A821.3
Subject: Wright Judith 1942-1985, 1915-- Collected Poems, Poetry
Format: Book
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June Bronhill: A Tribute - VHS 9 (2005)
Author: June Bronhill
Published: in 2005 by ABC
Dewey No.: vhs
Subject: opera singer
Format: VHS
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June Dally Watkins - VHS 78 (2006)
Author: June Dally Watkins
Published: in 2006 by ABC Talking Heads
Subject: 1st developer of school of Deportment & Style
Format: VHS
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Just Me (1997)
Author: Maise Chettle
Published: in 1997 by Seaview Press
Dewey No.: 371 10
Subject: A/B Maise Chettle, Experiences in Aust/UK
Format: Book
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Just Racing (2006)
Author: Phil Purser
Published: in 2006 by 87 Print Co.
Subject: Horse racing/ Greyhound racing Sport/horse & Greyhound racing
Format: Book
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Just Sensational! Queer Histories of Western Sydney. (2002)
Author: Liverpool Regional Museum
Published: in 2002 by Liverpool Regional Museum
Dewey No.: 306
Subject: Liverpool exhibition 2002 Museum lesbian Gay community New South Wales Sydney Exhibitions
Format: Book
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Just Tell Them I Survived!: Women in Antarctica (2001)
Author: Robin Burns
Published: in 2001 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 30.409989
Subject: Women-Antarctica,etc., Antarctia/survival
Format: Book
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Just Wanted to be There: Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999 (1999)
Author: Richard Reid
Published: in 1999 by nurses 1899-1999
Dewey No.: 355.3450994
Subject: MEDICAL/service nurses
Format: Book
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Jutta Malnic - VHS 50
Author: Jutta Malnic
Subject: 1st female photographer on Sydney Morning Herald- her memories of the war in Germany & arrival in Australia-becoming a photographer
Format: VHS
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Kabbarli : A Personal Memoir Of Daisy Bates (1973)
Author: Ernestine Hill
Published: in 1973 by Angus Robertson
Dewey No.: 362.840
Subject: Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951.Ethnology. Social service. Women. Biography. Western Australia. Aboriginal Australians. South Australia. Anthropology. Welfare work with Aborigines. Bates, Daisy Mary, ca.1861-1951. Culture. Social workers
Format: Book
