Dr Vanessa Beavis, FANZCA, shares her thoughts with us about her portrait.
Dr Vanessa Beavis, FANZCA, shares her thoughts with us about her portrait. The portrait was taken in 2023 and was revealed and hung in Ulimaroa, ANZCA at the end of 2024. Alternatively known as the ‘COVID President’ or our ‘War time President’, my two years as...
A Foray into the Archives of the Geoffrey Kaye Museum
Zana Bell is Geoffrey Kaye Museum’s 2023 History and Heritage Grant winner. Zana has had six novels published internationally and has a particular interest in women’s history. Zana travelled from New Zealand to Melbourne in early March 2024 to conduct...
A brief history of obstetric anaesthesia in Australia
For History Month 2021, we asked Prof Alicia Dennis to talk to us about the history of obstetric anaesthesia in Australia. Prof Dennis had already prepared a presentation for the Launceston Historical Society’s Pugh Day Lecture. Restrictions in place, due to Covid-19,...
Australian Women Doctors and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals
On Saturday, 21 September, 2019, the museum curator gave a presentation in Hobart to a meeting of COMA (Collection of Medical Artefacts). The presentation looked at the way women doctors from Australia became involved with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for...