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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

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Outback & rural nursing

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Angels in the outback: the Australian inland mission : a century of service to the outback by Max Griffiths
Call Number: 362.1 GRI
Bush nurses: inspiring true stories of nursing bravery and ingenuity in rural and remote Australia by Annabelle Brayley (Ed.)
Call Number: 610.73430994 BRA 2013
Nurses with altitude : a collection of stories by the nurses and their colleagues at the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia by Gaye Richardson
Call Number: 616.980213 RIC 2008
The hungry heart : a compelling account of life in one of the most scattered and isolated populations on the face of the eart by Max Griffiths
Call Number: 266.5294 GRI 1992
Bush nursing in Victoria : 1910-1985, the first 75 years by Susan Priestley
Call Number: 610.734309945 PRI 1986
The story of bush nursing in Victoria by Caroline E. Anderson
Call Number: 610.73430994 AND 1951
Bush nursing in Berwick : the first fifty years by Eileen M. Williams
Call Number: 610.73099452 BUS 1990

Victorian hospital histories

5.30, nurse! : the story of the Alfred nurses by Helen Paterson
Call Number: 610.730994 PAT
Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. by Emma Russell
Call Number: 362.11099451 RUS 1997
Bye-Bye Charlie : stories from the vanishing world of Kew Cottages by Corinne Manning
Call Number: 362.385099451 MAN 2008
Caring for our children : the history of nursing, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne by Margaret McInnes
Call Number: 610.9945 MCI
Domestic comforts they had none : a pictorial history of the Bendigo Hospital by David Lloyd.
Call Number: 362.11099454 LLO 2003
Earning our badge : Group G nurses 1959 to 1962, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne : celebrating 50 years to 2012 by Judith Salvadori
Call Number: 610.73 SAL
Healing Hands: A history of Mildura Base Hospital - The final fifty years by Vincent Tassone
Call Number: 362.11 TAS
Melbourne's Mercy : a history of Mercy Private Hospital by Susan Priestley
Call Number: 362.11099451 PRI 1990
Memories of Inglewood Hospital and new beginnings with Inglewood and Districts Health Service by Barbara Mason
Call Number: 362.11099451 MAS 2009
A most ingenious hospital : a history of Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital 1940-1990 by Harry W. Nunn.
Call Number: 362.11099451 NUN 1990
Being there: nursing at 'The Melbourne', Victoria's first hospital by Susan Sherson
Call Number: 610.7340994 SHE 2005
A place on the hill : the history of St Vincent's private hospitals in Melbourne 1906-1993 by Michael Tyquin
Call Number: 610.9945 TYQ 1997
A profession's pathway : nursing at St Vincent's since 1893 by Mary Sheehan
Call Number: 610.7309945 SHE 2005
The Royal Children's Hospital : a history of faith, science and love by Peter Yule.
Call Number: 362.19892 YUL 1999
Sex and suffering : women's health and a women's hospital, the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996 by Janet McCalman
Call Number: 362.110994 MCC 1998
Ways of a hospital : St. Vincent's Melbourne 1890s-1990s by Bryan Egan
Call Number: 362.11099451 EGA 1993

Browse the ANMF (Vic Branch) Library History collection

Browse the History collection in the Library catalogue

General nursing history texts

Nurses of Australia : the illustrated story by Deborah Burrows
Call Number: 610.734309944223 BUR 2018

Biblio = 4831
The growth of a profession : nursing in Victoria 1930s-1980s by Judith & Bob Bessant
Call Number: 610.7309945 BES 1991

Biblio = 4841
Celebrating nursing : a visual history by Christine E. Hallett
Call Number: 610.7309 HAL 2010

Biblio = 3132
All care and responsibility : a history of nursing in Victoria 1850-1934 by Richard Trembath & Donna Hellier
Call Number: 610.7309945 TRE 1987
A tapestry of service: the evolution of nursing in Australia: Volume 1 : Foundation to Federation 1788-1900 by Bartz Schultz
Call Number: 610.730994 SCH

Web resources

Australian Nurses Memorial Centre
The ANMC was founded by Australian War Nurses who survived unimaginable adversity during the WWII - read some of their stories online.
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.
Australian Women who served - units & names
The Great War Forum site was created for discussion and research on all aspects of World War I
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science database
Features information about individuals, organisations, societies, institutions, and industries, including several biographies of Australian nurses and midwives.
Nurse training books at PROV
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.
State Library of Victoria Blog
Celebrating our nurses: the history of nursing in Victoria by Jane Miller posted 12 May 2023
Victorian Collections
Includes digitised photos, uniforms, and ephemera from a range of Victorian libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. eHive is another, similar resource.
Victorian Government Gazette
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