


Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine on the Thai-Burma Railway
When Singapore fell in February 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army suddenly found itself in control of some 60,000 Allied prisoners of war (POW), most of whom were British, Australian or Dutch. Approximately 22,000 POWs were Australian soldiers and among them were 106...
Women & Medicine Symposium – International Women’s Day
This is the museum’s first post for 2019, and it’s a really exciting one. We’re going to kick off this year with a full-day history symposium about women and medicine on International Women’s Day (8 March). It’s a pretty broad theme and, because of that, we’ve got a...
Reading the Gwen Wilson Archive
In 2017 representatives from the Geoffrey Kaye Museum, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, and Harry Daly Museum joined forces to present a session at the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM) conference held at the Australian...
The benefits of hands-on history
Jack Rayner is a 2nd year student of history at Swinburne University. Jack is a recent addition to the volunteer team at the Geoffrey Kaye Museum and has been attempting to take classroom skills into the real-world. His research will be contributing to a 2018...