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Library Resource Guides: Focus on individual nurses & midwives

Recommended reference sources

Nurses and midwives in Australian history : a guide to historical resources by Noeline Kyle, R Lynette Russell & Jennifer Blundell
Call Number: 610.730994 KYL 2015

General nursing history texts

Nurses of Australia: the illustrated story by Deborah Burrows
Call Number: 610.734309944223 BUR 2018
The growth of a profession : nursing in Victoria 1930s-1980s by Judith & Bob Bessant
Call Number: 610.7309945 BES 1991
Celebrating nursing : a visual history by Christine E. Hallett
Call Number: 610.7309 HAL 2010

Biographies of nurses and midwives

Australia's controversial matron : Gwen Burbidge and nursing reform by Judith Godden
Call Number: 610.73092 GOD
Don't stand on the grass : memoirs of early nursing in Melbourne by Fleur Finnie
Call Number: 610.73092 FIN 1996
From the heart : true stories by Australian nurses by Amanda Tattam
Call Number: 610.7309 TAT
Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced by Judith Godden
Call Number: 610.73092 GOD 2006
Notes on Nightingale : the influence and legacy of a nursing icon by Sioban Nelson & Anne Marie Rafferty
Call Number: 610.73 NEL
ISBN: 9780801449062
Yes sister, no sister : my life as a trainee nurse in 1950s Yorkshire by Jennifer Craig
Call Number: 610.73092 CRA 2010

Browse the ANMF (Vic Branch) Library History collection

Browse the History collection in the Library catalogue

Aboriginal nurses' experiences

In our own right: Black Australian nurses' stories by Congress Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Nurses Members
Call Number: 610.73092 GOO
In our own right : black Australian nurses' stories [videorecording] by Cam Slamm
Call Number: 610.73092 SLA 2007

Web resources

Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project
The ANMHP is hosted by the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne. It includes a biographical register, details of historic nursing organisations, and reference sources.
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science database
Features information about individuals, organisations, societies, institutions, and industries, including several biographies of Australian nurses and midwives.
Victorian Collections
Includes digitised photos, uniforms, and ephemera from a range of Victorian libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. eHive is another, similar resource.