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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Noline (2005)
Author: Noline Brown
Published: in 2005 by Allen&Unwin
Subject: Australian actress /politician
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North Coast Women: A History to 1939 (1996)
Author: Baiba Berzins
Published: in 1996 by Royal Australian Historical Society
Dewey No.: 305 4099
Subject: Women; NSW-North Coast etc; SOCIAL NSW COAST
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Days (1994)
Author: Myra Hilgendorf
Published: in 1994 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 919.429
Subject: Experience of travel through northern Australia through letters to family and personal diary
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical of History Heritage and Archaeology Issue No 26 (2015)
Author: Clayton Frediricksen Dr. Ed
Published: in 2015 by Charles Darwin University
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies (2014)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen (Editor)
Published: in 2014 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 223.439
Subject: Archaeology, Historic sites, Pioneers, Aboriginal Australians, Northern Territory, Antiquities, Periodicals, Frontier and pioneer life
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies: A Journal of History, Heritage and Archaeology (2015)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen
Published: in 2015 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 994.290
Subject: Recollections of war by several authors. Subjects including the story of a Filipino family, visit to Darwin of a Japanese naval vessel, involvement of the United States Navy effort in building infrastructure and the genesis of ABC radio in the N.T. as a result of World War Two.
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies: A Journal of History, Heritage and Archaeology (2014)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen
Published: in 2014 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 994.290
Subject: Archaeology. Historic sites. Aboriginal Australians. Antiquities. Frontier and pioneer life. Northern Territory -- History -- Periodicals. Australian
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies: A Journal of History, Heritage and Archaeology (2014)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen
Published: in 2014 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 994.290
Subject: Archaeology. Historic sites. Aboriginal Australians. Antiquities. Frontier and pioneer life. Northern Territory -- History -- Periodicals. Australian
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies: A Journal of History, Heritage and Archaeology (2017)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen (Editor)
Published: in 2017 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 223.439
Subject: Archaeology, Historic sites, Pioneers, Aboriginal Australians, Northern Territory Antiquities Periodicals, Frontier and pioneer life
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Historical Studies: A Journal of History, Heritage and Archaeology (2018)
Author: Clayton Fredericksen (Editor)
Published: in 2018 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 223.439
Subject: Archaeology, Historic sites, Pioneers, Aboriginal Australians, Northern Territory Antiquities Periodicals, Frontier and pioneer life
Format: Book
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Northern Territory Women's Register 1948-1988 (1991)
Author: Wendy James et al
Published: in 1991 by NT Women's Advisory Council
Dewey No.: 305.40922
Subject: BIO Women; Northern Territory; Social/NT Women
Format: Book
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Not For Glory
Author: Susan Neuhaus
Published: by Boolarlong Press
Dewey No.: 355 3450994
Subject: Australian Army/Medical Women; Military/Female Health specialists
Format: Book
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Not Now, Not Ever: Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland (2015)
Author: Quentin Bryce
Published: in 2015 by Brisbane Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
Dewey No.: 362.829
Subject: Taskforce social Domestic Violence Prevention. Family violence Government policy Queensland.
Format: Book
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Not Quite Ripe (2006)
Author: Debra Byrne
Published: in 2006 by Pan Macmillan. Aus.
Subject: memoir, music, singing, stardom
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Not the Marrying Kind: Single Women in Australia (1984)
Author: Robyn & Yvonne Penman & Stolk
Published: in 1984 by Penguin
Dewey No.: 305489052
Subject: Single women; Australia; public opinion; Social/single women
Format: Book
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Nothing Like a Dame: Dame Phyllis Frost (2003)
Author: Bernadette Clohesy
Published: in 2003 by Thomas C Lothian
Dewey No.: 303484092
Subject: bio Social Reformer, Dame Phyllis Frost, humanitarianism, prison reform, Keep Australia Beautiful, social reformer
Format: Book
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Nothing Prepared Me (2002)
Author: Eckford Edna Quilty
Published: in 2002 by EE Quilty
Subject: BIO Women Ranchers WA Landsdowne; pioneeer/women ranchers
Format: Book
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Nothing to Spare: Reflections of Australian Pioneering Women (1983)
Author: Jan Carter
Published: in 1983 by Penguin Books Ltd
Dewey No.: 305 409941
Subject: Women-Western Australia-Social Conditions; Social/Pioneering
Format: Book
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Notorious Strumpets And Dangerous Girls (1990)
Author: Phillip Tardif
Published: in 1990 by Collins/Angus & Robertson
Dewey No.: 036437409946
Subject: Convict Women In Van Diemans Land, Convict Women
Format: Book
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Nova Peris - VHS 63 (2003)
Author: Nova Peris
Published: in 2003 by Enough Rope- Andrew Denton
Subject: Aboriginal Hockey Roos Player Atlanta Olympics 1996 -Politician; Sports/Politics
Format: VHS
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Nova: My Story (2003)
Author: Nova Peris
Published: in 2003 by Aust.Broadcasting Corp
Dewey No.: 796. 355
Subject: A/B nova Peris, sport/politics
Format: Book
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Now Look What You Made Me Do (1998)
Author: Shirley Venn
Published: in 1998 by S/P Shirley Venn
Dewey No.: 929
Subject: A/B Shirley Venn; Social/overcoming illiteracy
Format: Book
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Nurse, Please (1999)
Author: Jillian Moore (ed)
Published: in 1999 by Jillian Moore
Subject: medical /Royal Perth Hospital, Medical/nursing
Format: Book
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Nursing in the Red Centre (2003)
Author: Doris Kubisch
Published: in 2003 by Eric & Ruth Fiebig
Dewey No.: 610 73092
Subject: nursing /red centre, Medical/NT
Format: Book
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Nursing Milestones: From the Religious, Nightingale Mythology to Charles Darwin University (2013)
Author: E.A. (Janie) Mason
Published: in 2013 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 610.730
Subject: Milestones in the caring for the sick in the home to nurses becoming professional carers in the hospital in the late 20th century
Format: Book