Australian Women's History

It's Women's History Month

In 2012 we moved and updated our website with a new URL http://www.womenshistory.com.au/. Join us this year as we launch Finding Founding Mothers, the theme for WHM March 2013. Go to our new blog site to read more about the theme and contribute your own thoughts and comments.

Australian Women's History Forum features:

Catch up with What's news?
Check the Calendar for upcoming events
Visit our Galleries - and other themes in women's history
Discover dates - see the Timeline
Meet people - see Who's Who
Find places - see Historic places
Locate Links - a wealth of resources
Join us Australian Women's History Forum

Explore Australian women's history

The Australian Women's History Forum is developing this portal to help you find online resources. This portal is intended as a classroom resource for students and teachers, but it will also interest general users seeking information on women's history in Australia and beyond. You will find stories, images, documents and data.

Australian Women's History Month 2012 Goes Live!

The aim of Australia’s Women’s History Month 2012 is to turn the extraordinary into the ordinary. By choosing the theme Women with a Plan we want to remove any surprise at the number of women among the urban planners, architects, and landscape architects who shaped our surroundings, and our history in the past century.

On the 2012 WHM website page you will find some great resource material, including an essay by historian Dr Lenore Coltheart on the struggles and successes of early women planners around Australia. If you want to investigate further we have also included a bibliography of useful reference material at the end of the essay. We have just posted an A4 size poster which you can print off or use as publicity material on-line. In the New Year we will also be adding a Gallery that will highlight a small number of significant, early women planners.