Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a marron cover with title, author and publisher's name embossed in gold on the spine. Front and spine of dust jacket has a black and white photograph: sick sisters on Lemnos. Title and authors name in blak and red print on front and spinenon-fictionThis book investigates the contradictions, paradoxes and anomalies which have arisen for those assigned the role of army nurse. Financial discrimination saw the female captain in charge of an operating theatre in Vietnam being paid less than a male corporal working with her. Guns have replaced brooches as part of the nurses' uniform, as "total war" increasingly makes a mockery of the distinction between combatants and non-combatants.military nursing-australia, australian army nursing service, nurses, nursing

315 pages, black and white photographs, dust jacket with book cover.non-fictionjames bisset, ww2, howard timbury, first fleet fellowship victoria, interest group

illustrated book with dust jacket. Book is bound in dark blue, with abbreviated title, author's surname, and publishers mark printed in gilt on spine. Dust jacket has a dark blue background, full title and author's name printed in multicolour on front. Abbreviated title, author's surname and publishers mark in multicolour print on spineAn absorbing social history of women's health seen through the workings of Australia's oldest women's hospital: the Royal Women's Hospital, from 1856-1996royal women's hospital-melbourne-history, women's health, obstetrics and gynacology, hospitals-victoria-history, nursing

Brown hardcover book with coloured dust jacket, 206 pages, 68 pages of platesbotany, wild flowers, everlasting daisy, boronia, acacia, flax lily, kangaroo apple, australian bugle, handsome flatpea, waratah, bottlebrush, daisy-bush

Hard covered book with dust jacket titled Rediscovering Victoria's Goldfields contains 117 pages with black and white & coloured photographs and prints.John Bechervaisebooks, natural history, goldfields, victoria-history-goldfields

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has dark blue cover, with title and author's name printed in gilt ink on spine. Dust jacket has a coloured painting by Brian Dunlop, depicting two nurses standing either side of a patient in bed. Title (red and blue ink) and authors name (red ink) are superimposed on front cover and spinenon-fictionA history of Williamstown Hospital, from the first citizens meeting held in 1889 identifying the need for a local hospital, the hospitals opening with six beds in 1894, up until 1991williamstown hospital, hospitals-victoria-history, nurses, nursing, medical services

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a maroon cover with title and author's surname embossed in gold on spine. The dust jacket has a maroon background with a photograph of the sculpture "Trust' by Heather Ellis 1987, and title and author's name printed in gold ink on front cover. Title and author's surname printed in gold on spine. On the back cover there is a coloured image of the RCH crestnon-fictionFounded in 1870 as a charitable hospital for sick children of indigent parents, a role it fulfilled for over 60 years. The 1930's began a long period of gradual transformation to provide services to all children and a centre for teaching and research. The pioneer and catalyst in this period was Ella Latham, the RCH tenth and longest serving President, 1933-1954. This book also tells of many of the hardworking and unsung hospital staff who underpinned the developing services for sick and disabled childrenroyal children's hospital (melbourne), ella latham, hospital administrators-melbourne, medical research, nursing

Hugh Fraser Morrow was Dux of Ballarat College1939, Prefect, and member of the Cricket, Football, Rowing, Athletics, and Tennis teams. He served on the Ballarat College Council 1953-73 and the Clarendon PLC Council 1951-64. The school H.G. MORROW Art and Craft Centre is named after his father. Emerald green cloth covered book with printed dust jacket; handwritten inscription on front cover and flyleaf; On front cover: H. F. Morrow On flyleaf: H. F. Morrow / Ballarat College / 1939ballarat college council, clarendon plc council, dux, morrow

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book is bound in dark green material, with title authors name and publishers mark print ed in gilt on spine. Dust jacket is black and gold in colour, with a coloured photo of newborn baby lying on adult hand on front cover. Title and author's name on front cover, also on spine with the addition of the publisher's mark. On the back cover is the RCH coat of armsnon-fictionAn insight into the origins and development of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Opening in 1870 with six rooms as "the Melbourne Free Hospital for Sick Children, it has grown into a major paediatric institution. As well as the hospitals history, the book provides insisight into the soacial and economic conditions in Victoria in the late 19th and early 20th centuryroyal children's hospital (melbourne), paediatrics-victoria-history

ISBN 0670040844. Khaki buckram hardcover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket has title in red and black and white photo of soldiers. 503 pages with black and white photos."To Dad, John WH Toon OAM NSJ VX30397 8 Div AASC Petrol Coy. From Andrew & Denise Xmas 2004"books, military history

This books details various actions in which ANZAC troops were engaged from the Boer War to World War II224p., black and white photographs, maps. Hard cover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket illustration of shadows of soldiers on green background, title in white writing.anzacs, australian army, boer war, world war i, world war ii

hard cover book with dust jacket, with dog-ear top of spine. Quarto, 55 pages with numerous full-page colour illustrations from photographs by Jocelyn Burt.non-fictionThis book is a true pictorial and written experience of the Little Desert 's flora, fauna, animal habitats and environment as it was in the 1970's.jocelyn burt - photographer - author - australian landscapes - environment

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a red cover with title and author's surname embossed in gold on spine. Front of the dust jacket has an illustration of a guard with female prisoners in the background (drawn by Geoff Tyson) Title is printed in yellow on a black background above this illustration, author's name is printed in white on a black background below this illustration. Title, author's and publisher's names are printed in black on a yellow background on the spinenon-fictionThe author was one of sixty-five Australian Army nurses ordered to leave Singapore aboard the Vyner Brooke. This is their story, including the years spent as prisoners of war in Sumatra by the survivorsworld war 1939-1945 prisoners of war, nurses

Hardcover book. Title in gold print. Cover photo, black and white image of first party of officers proceeding from SS Simla to land on Lemnos Island, this is on the dust jacket. Author name printed on front of book and jacket. 352 pages, including over 300 labelled photographs and maps.non-fictionThe story of the Hellenic connection to Australia's Gallipoli story. Lemnos was the advance base for the Gallipoli campaign.wwi, lemnos, gallipoli, ahnl, grace wilson

Hardcover book with dust jacket. Cover is dark green, dust jacket is maroon and turquoise with sepia photo of Neville Howse in uniform on right with pale Rising Sun badge behind.Sticker on title page "Francis W Dean BEM". Sticker also includes address and phone number.books, biography

Red and grey hard cover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket sepia photo background of 2 officers plus black & white photo of soldiers coming ashore from a boat.Written on title page in pen: Donated by Bendigo Y Mens Clubbooks, military, history

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book is bound in black material, with title, author's and publisher's name printed in silver ink on spine. Dust jacket has background of mid-blue with narrow re borders top and bottom. Title in red, silver and black ink, authors name in white print on front and spine. Also on front is an oval shaped colour photo of the hospital. on the back cover is an image of the hospital logo and motto traslation in white printnon-fictionFounded as a religious hospital by the Sisters of Charity in !893, St Vincent's has become a distinctive part of Melbourne life. 'Ways of a Hospital" offers an engrossing look at the development and the culture of the hospital and it's place in the social history of the cityst vincent's hospital melbourne, hospitals-victoria-history, medical services, nurses

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a purple cover with full title and authors name in gold on front, authors name and abbreviated title in gold on spine. Dust jacket is cream in colour, with authors name and full title printed in purple ink on front. Authors name and abbreviated title printed in purple ink on spine. Also on front cover is a painting by Kevin Jopson of the entrance to Vindin House (nurses' home at Royal North Shore Hospital)non-fictionThis book is an account of the development of nursing practice as the original North Shore cottage hospital progressed to becoming one of the major medical institutions of Australiaroyal north shore hospital-sydney-history, nurses, nursing

Bernard O'Dowd was an Australian poet and anarchist. He was born in Beaufort in 1866 and worked at different times as a teacher, librarian and parliamentary draftsman. He was dismissed from his position at St Alipius' school in Ballarat for heresy. He had a particular interest in the Federation of Australia and formation of the Constitution, which features in his poem "Australia". O'Dowd co-edited Tocsin with Jack Andrews. Tocsin was a labor newspaper in Melbourne. Others involved with the newspaper include Edward Findley and, for a short time, Norman Lindsay. Tocsin's platform is available in PDF format online http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/objects/pdf/a000808.pdf Areas of interest included the constitution, federation and workers' industrial rights (e.g. eight hour day, pensions and arbitration for labour disputes).Biographical interest. Literary interest. Pertinent to Ballarat. Pertinent to constitutional history and industrial relations. Pertinent to labor publications, history and literature.Hardcover - book. Cover dust jacket: black and white photograph of Bernard O'Dowd on front, yellow and white lettering; back is yellow. Cover without dust jacket: green cloth; gold lettering.Cover without dust jacket: authors' names and title on the spine. Cover with dust jacket: authors' names and title on front cover and spine. Inside page: Inscribed in ink, "Happy Birthday Dad from Lorna and John (Sept 17 1960).btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, o'dowd, bernard, writers - poets, newspaper, tocsin, lindsay, norman, andrews, jack, findley, edward, anarchists, biography, palmer, nettie, st alipius school, ballarat, o'dowd, bernard, 1866-1953, industrial relations

illustrated hardcover book with dust jacket. Book is bound in white, Melbourne's Mercy in gilt on front cover, Melbourne's Mercy, authors surname and publisher's mark in gilt on spine. Dust jacket has a white background, with full title and authors full name on front, Melbourne's Mercy, authors surname and publisher's mark on spine. Also on front cover is a photograph of the hospital [ca.1990]. On the back cover there is a coloured photograph of the Bronze Dove sculpture (crafted by Flynn Silver, Kyneton)non-fictionThis illustrated book is a history of the Mercy private Hospital in Melbourne. It describes the work of the Sisters of Mercy, first at St Benedict's hospital Malvern (opened 1920) and then from December 1934 at the Mercy Private Hospital in East Melbourne. Also included is a history of the Mercy Maternity Hospiital, that opened in East Melbourne in 1971. The period covered by the book extends to the mid 1980's. The text is enlivened by anecdotes of doctors, nurses, other staff and patientsmercy private hospital-melbourne, mercy maternity hospital-melbourne, st benedict's hospital-malvern, hospitals-victoria, east melbourne

Vol 2. See also item no 723.Hardcover book with dust jacket. Both covers are blue, spine is yellow. Front cover has picture of Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese with two tanks in the background. Picture is between the stars of the Southern Cross.books, military history

Khaki hardcover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket has picture of a beach and sky with a gun barrel on the sand, pointing out to sea. Back cover has three smaller photos of battlefield debris.On second page "Donated by Bgo "Y" Men's Club"books, military battles