Noeline Kyle is an advocate for history for and by the community and has a commitment to continuing her work with readers, writers, historians, and researchers of family history, local history, memoir, biography and women's history. As well as her extensive list of academic publications Noeline has published in newspapers, community journals, popular books, and bulletins to circulate her ideas on story writing, local and family history, and the history of women in Australia.
She has facilitated writing support groups for family historians in Queensland and New South Wales since 1990s these providing an outlet for the creative energy of family and community historians eager to find more professional ways of writing their family histories. She provides seminars and workshops on writing family history through tertiary institutions, writers' centres, the community and family history societies.
Noeline is the author of Her Natural Destiny: The Education of Women in NSW (NSW University Press, 1986); Tracing Family History in Australia, (Methuen, 1985); We Should've Listened to Grandma: Women and Family History, (Allen & Unwin, 1988); and The Family History Writing Book, (1993, 2001). The book Remembering Mothers edited by Noeline Kyle, Lybbie Semple and Jan Gracie Mulcahy, was launched at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival in 2005. In 2007 Noeline published Writing Family History Made Very Easy (Allen & Unwin).
Since her retirement Noeline has published a biography of her great grandmother Memories & Dreams: A Biography of Nurse Mary Kirkpatrick , an emigrant from Northern Ireland in the 1880s. The book Music, Myth & Memories: A Kyle Family History (with Joyce Lawson) is now available, see the order form at: Kyle Family History. Noeline has also completed research on several female convicts on her father’s side of her family and is researching a biography on the Australian life and work of Constance Kent. Noeline plans to write a memoir of Australian childhood in the 1940s and continues her work on the history of midwives and their hospitals from the north coast of New South Wales. She is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney.
Noeline is a life member of the Newcastle Family History Society, and a member of Botany Bay Family History Society, Northern Rivers Writing Centre (Byron Bay), New South Wales Writers Centre , Society of Australian Genealogists , Queensland Family History Society, Royal Australian Historical Society, and Australian & New Zealand History of Education Society.
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