Library Resource Guides: Focus on locations, sites, spaces

The ANMC was founded by Australian War Nurses who survived unimaginable adversity during the WWII - read some of their stories online.

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.

The Great War Forum site was created for discussion and research on all aspects of World War I

Features information about individuals, organisations, societies, institutions, and industries, including several biographies of Australian nurses and midwives.

As part of a major Department of Health and Human Services records transfer, nurse training books from Fairfield are now available at the Public Records Office of Victoria collection. Contained within the four volumes that make up the series you can find entries for nurses in training.

Celebrating our nurses: the history of nursing in Victoria by Jane Miller posted 12 May 2023

Includes digitised photos, uniforms, and ephemera from a range of Victorian libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. eHive is another, similar resource.

Search the lists of Midwives and lists of Nurses to find historical information including names, addresses, registration number, dates (of addition, change or removal from the register), and hospital (for nurses training):
• Midwives Registers: 1916-1956
• Nurses Registers: 1925-1956