Professor Julia Horne
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Professor Julia Horne

PhD UNSW
University Historian
Senior Research Fellow
History
Professor Julia Horne

Julia Horne is University Historian at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian cultural and social history including the history of landscape, travel and tourism, and the history of higher education.

At the University of Sydney, the University Historian is responsible for maintaining the University’s oral history program and developing strategies to promote the University, its heritage and history to the wider community. Current projects include At War! The University of Sydney and the First World War andSydney in Ten Questions, a series of short historical videos to be launched by SAM later in 2013. She is also co-organiser with Emeritus Professors Alan Atkinson and Geoffrey Sherington of the St Paul’s History of University Life Seminar held regularly during semester.

Julia Horne has taught history at UNSW, worked as a curator in social history at the Powerhouse Museum, pioneered local history outreach programs and spent hundreds of hours interviewing people about their lives as Head of the Oral History Program in the UNSW Archives. She was a member of the Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society 2007-13, and in 2009, was appointed member of the governing council of the Australian National Maritime Museum.

  • Australian history
  • History of higher education
  • American philanthropy in Australia between the wars
  • History and heritage
  • History of women’s education and professions
  • History of travel and tourism
  • Australian social, political and cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • History of higher education
  • Women’s history
  • Student movements
  • Heritage and public history
  • Australian-American relations
  • American philanthropy in Australia between the wars
  • University philanthropy and the education state in Australia 1850-1945
  • Australian women, gender and the public university 1874 to 1950
  • My Father’s House: reflections on history, heritage and home
  • At War! The University of Sydney and the First World War
  • Co-organiser (with Alan Atkinson and Geoffrey Sherington), History of University Life Seminar at St Paul’s.
Project titleResearch student
Australian Airmen in Europe: The Personal Costs of Aerial Doctrine (1939-1945)Kurt-owen CORRIGAN
The Australian School of Pacific Administration: An ExperimentAlexandra FROST
Mrs Anzac: A Study of the War Brides of the First World WarCharles HEWAT

Selected publications

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Publications

Books

  • Horne, J., Garton, S. (2017). Preserving the past: The University of Sydney and the Unified National System of Higher Education, 1987-96. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J., Sherington, G. (2012). Sydney the Making of a Public University. Sydney, Australia: The Miegunyah Press.
  • Horne, J. (2005). The Pursuit of Wonder: how Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press.

Edited Books

  • Horne, J., Thomas, M. (2022). Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Horne, J., Ingleson, J., McCarthy, L., O'Farrell, P. (1988). Locating Australia's Past: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History in New South Wales. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Book Chapters

  • Horne, J., Thomas, M. (2022). (Re)starting the conversation. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good, (pp. 1-13). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Horne, J. (2022). International students in Australia since the early 1900s. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Horne, J., Horne, N. (2021). Introduction. The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Donald Horne, (pp. xiv-xviii). Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

Journals

  • Horne, J. (2020). MASS EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(5), 671-690. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2016). The "knowledge front", women, war and peace. History of Education Review, 45(2), 151-167. [More Information]
  • Horne, J., Pietsch, T. (2016). Universities, expertise and the First World War. History of Education Review, 45(2), 142-150. [More Information]

Edited Journals

  • Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism in World History. Journal of World History, 21(3).
  • Walker, D., Garton, S., Horne, J. (1994). Bodies. Australian Cultural History, 12.
  • Walker, D., Garton, S., Horne, J. (1993). Crimes and Trials. Australian Cultural History, 12.

Conferences

  • Horne, J. (2015). Donald Horne and The Lucky Country. The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties ISAA Annual Conference Proceedings, Canberra: Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc.
  • Sherington, G., Horne, J. (2009). Modes of engagement: universities and schools in Australia 1850-1914. Beyond the Lecture Hall Conference: Universities and community Engagement from the middle ages to the present day, Cambridge: Faculty of Education and Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.

Textual Creative Works

  • Horne, J., Howells, T. (2007). Walks. University of Sydney Architecture, (pp. 211 - 225). Sydney, Australia: Watermark Press.
  • Horne, J., Campbell, R. (2002). An Act to Incorporate and Endow the University of Sydney: A Performance for Four Voices. Australia: .
  • Horne, J., Devos, A. (2002). Website "Womens Research 21". Womens Research 21 (website), Sydney, Australia: University of NSW (UNSW).

Film / Video

  • Horne, J., Gillroy, E. (2018). When Drama met History: Teaching the History of War and Commemoration. You Tube, Australia.
  • Horne, J. (2017). The Historian Who Challenged Public Opinion. Online Video, UNSPECIFIED: YouTube.
  • Horne, J. (2014). Donald Horne and The Lucky Country. Online Video, UNSPECIFIED: YouTube.

Web based exhibition

  • Horne, J., Morrison, N., Johnson, I., Gillroy, E., Higgins, J. (2014). Beyond 1914 - The University of Sydney and the Great War. Australia: University of Sydney.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Horne, J. (2022). 'A new accord - Restoring good relations between government and universities'. Australian Book Review, 444.
  • Horne, J. (2020). How universities came to rely on international students. The Conversation. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2018). An armchair, a desk and 4000 books: the Horne family study gets a second life. The Conversation.

Report

  • Horne, J. (1991). Unlocking the Academies: Responses and Strategies.

Reference Works

  • Horne, J. (2012). Ward, John Manning (1919-1990). In M Nolan (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J. (2003). Australia. In Jennifer Speake (Eds.), The Literature of Travel and Exploration: an encyclopaedia. (pp. 48-52). London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
  • Horne, J. (2002). Robert Quentin. In John Ritchie, Dianne Langmore (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 16. (pp. 41-42). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Research Reports

  • Horne, J. (2011). The Rockefeller Foundation and the Modern Australian University, 1926-1942, 2011, (pp. 1 - 8). Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States of America: Rockefeller Archive Centre.

2022

  • Horne, J. (2022). 'A new accord - Restoring good relations between government and universities'. Australian Book Review, 444.
  • Horne, J., Thomas, M. (2022). (Re)starting the conversation. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good, (pp. 1-13). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Horne, J., Thomas, M. (2022). Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

2021

  • Horne, J., Horne, N. (2021). Introduction. The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Donald Horne, (pp. xiv-xviii). Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

2020

  • Horne, J. (2020). How universities came to rely on international students. The Conversation. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2020). MASS EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(5), 671-690. [More Information]

2019

  • Horne, J. (2019). The Teaching Profession. In Kate Darian-Smith, James Waghorne (Eds.), The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939, (pp. 269-288). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

2018

  • Horne, J. (2018). An armchair, a desk and 4000 books: the Horne family study gets a second life. The Conversation.
  • Horne, J., Gillroy, E. (2018). When Drama met History: Teaching the History of War and Commemoration. You Tube, Australia.
  • Horne, J. (2018). Writer's Room. SL Magazine.

2017

  • Horne, J., Garton, S. (2017). Preserving the past: The University of Sydney and the Unified National System of Higher Education, 1987-96. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J. (2017). The Historian Who Challenged Public Opinion. Online Video, UNSPECIFIED: YouTube.

2016

  • Horne, J. (2016). The "knowledge front", women, war and peace. History of Education Review, 45(2), 151-167. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2016). The Final Barrier? Australian Women and the Nineteenth-Century Public University. In E. Lisa Panayotidis, Paul Stortz (Eds.), Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970: International Perspectives, (pp. 76-96). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2016). The Pursuit of Wonder: Backtracking Through Nature. In P. Ashton, A. Clark and R. Crawford (Eds.), Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past, (pp. 112-127). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

2015

  • Horne, J. (2015). Donald Horne and The Lucky Country. The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties ISAA Annual Conference Proceedings, Canberra: Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc.
  • Horne, J. (2015). In their own words: letters from ANZACs during the Gallipoli evacuation. The Conversation. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2015). Political Machinations and Sectarian Intrigue in the Making of Sydney University. Australian Catholic Historical Society. Journal, 36, 4-15.

2014

  • Horne, J., Morrison, N., Johnson, I., Gillroy, E., Higgins, J. (2014). Beyond 1914 - The University of Sydney and the Great War. Australia: University of Sydney.
  • Horne, J. (2014). Donald Horne and The Lucky Country. Online Video, UNSPECIFIED: YouTube.
  • Horne, J. (2014). Looking from the inside out: rethinking university history. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46(2), 174-189. [More Information]

2013

  • Horne, J., Sherington, G. (2013). 'Dominion' Legacies: The Australian Experience. In Deryck M Schreuder (Eds.), Universities for a New World: Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013, (pp. 284-307). London: Sage Publications.
  • Horne, J., Sherington, G. (2013). Education. In Alison Bashford, Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1: Indigenous and Colonial Australia, (pp. 367-390). New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Horne, J. (2013). My father's famous book grew up with us. Australian Financial Review Weekend.

2012

  • Horne, J., Sherington, G. (2012). Sydney the Making of a Public University. Sydney, Australia: The Miegunyah Press.
  • Horne, J. (2012). Ward, John Manning (1919-1990). In M Nolan (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J. (2012). Why a solution to the St John's scandal lies with Barry O'Farrell. The Conversation. [More Information]

2011

  • Horne, J. (2011). Randwick by Pauline Curby. Reviews in Australian Studies, 5(1), 1-4.
  • Horne, J. (2011). The Rockefeller Foundation and the Modern Australian University, 1926-1942, 2011, (pp. 1 - 8). Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States of America: Rockefeller Archive Centre.

2010

  • Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism in World History. Journal of World History, 21(3).
  • Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism: Its Pasts and Practices. Journal of World History, 21(3), 369-373.
  • Sherington, G., Horne, J. (2010). Empire, State and Public Purpose in the Founding of Universities and Colleges in the Antipodes. History of Education Review, 39(2), 36-51.

2009

  • Horne, J. (2009). Equity and Access: we led the way. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Sherington, G., Horne, J. (2009). Modes of engagement: universities and schools in Australia 1850-1914. Beyond the Lecture Hall Conference: Universities and community Engagement from the middle ages to the present day, Cambridge: Faculty of Education and Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
  • Horne, J. (2009). Thomas Fisher, the man behind the library. Record, 2009, 5-11.

2008

  • Horne, J. (2008). The Writer, the Griffins and Canberra. History Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2008 (December), 8-9.

2007

  • Horne, J., Sluga, G., Caine, B. (2007). Cosmopolitanism. Its Past and Practices. Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia), 26(3), 79-82.
  • Horne, J., Howells, T. (2007). Introduction: A University for Sydney. In Trevor Howells (Eds.), University of Sydney Architecture, (pp. 9-17). Australia: Watermark Press.
  • Horne, J., Howells, T. (2007). Walks. University of Sydney Architecture, (pp. 211 - 225). Sydney, Australia: Watermark Press.

2006

  • Horne, J. (2006). Capturing the Personal with Oral History. Journal of Australian Naval History, 3(2), 66-82.

2005

  • Horne, J. (2005). The Pursuit of Wonder: how Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press.

2004

  • Horne, J. (2004). Alice Tay, the Making of an Intellectual. In G. Doeker-Mach and K. A. Ziegert (Eds.), Law, legal culture and politics in the twenty-first century, (pp. 491-508). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

2003

  • Horne, J. (2003). Australia. In Jennifer Speake (Eds.), The Literature of Travel and Exploration: an encyclopaedia. (pp. 48-52). London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
  • Horne, J. (2003). Oral History as Modern Personal Papers: in defence of the long interview. Oral History Association of Australia Journal, 25, 28-30.

2002

  • Horne, J., Campbell, R. (2002). An Act to Incorporate and Endow the University of Sydney: A Performance for Four Voices. Australia: .
  • Horne, J. (2002). Robert Quentin. In John Ritchie, Dianne Langmore (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 16. (pp. 41-42). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J., Devos, A. (2002). Website "Womens Research 21". Womens Research 21 (website), Sydney, Australia: University of NSW (UNSW).

2001

  • Iuso, A., Horne, J. (2001). Archives (Australia Section). In Margaretta Jolly (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms vol.1. (pp. 50-53). London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
  • Horne, J. (2001). Earthly Concerns. Review of Tim Bonyhady, The Colonial Earth. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Horne, J. (2001). Message of Hope in the Dust and Rubble. Review of Chris Woodward, In Ruins. The Sydney Morning Herald.

2000

  • Horne, J. (2000). C H Munro. In John Ritchie (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Horne, J. (2000). Josephine O’Neill. In John Ritchie (Eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

1997

  • Horne, J. (1997). Not an Ivory Tower: the making of an Australian vice-chancellor, based on interviews with Michael and Jenny Birt Kensington. Sydney: UNSW Archive.

1994

  • Walker, D., Garton, S., Horne, J. (1994). Bodies. Australian Cultural History, 12.
  • Horne, J. (1994). Jenolan Caves. When the Tourists Came. Crows Nest: Kingsclear Books.
  • Horne, J., McCarthy, L. (1994). Unique providers : money raising and the University of New South Wales U Committee 1963-1993.. Sydney: UNSW Archive.

1993

  • Walker, D., Garton, S., Horne, J. (1993). Crimes and Trials. Australian Cultural History, 12.

1992

  • Walker, D., Horne, J., Lyons, M. (1992). Books, Readers, Reading. Australian Cultural History, 11.

1991

  • Walker, D., Horne, J. (1991). Travellers, Journeys, Tourists. Australian Cultural History, 10.
  • Horne, J. (1991). Unlocking the Academies: Responses and Strategies.

1990

  • Walker, D., Horne, J., Vickers, A. (1990). Australian Perceptions of Asia. Australian Cultural History, 9.

1989

  • Walker, D., Horne, J., O'Brien, A. (1989). The Cult of Practicality. Australian Cultural History, 8.

1988

  • Horne, J., Ingleson, J., McCarthy, L., O'Farrell, P. (1988). Locating Australia's Past: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History in New South Wales. Sydney: UNSW Press.
  • Horne, J. (1988). The camera never lies. Or does it? Interpreting photographs. Locating Australia's Past: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History in New South Wales. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Selected Grants

2021

  • Universities and Postwar Recovery 1943-57, Horne J, Garton S, Darian-Smith E, Waghorne E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiative: Australian Society, History and Culture

2018

  • Creative pedagogies and the history of war, Horne J, DVC Research/Industry & Community Engagement Seed Fund (I&CEF)

Other Professional Contributions

Julia Horne is currently a councillor of the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), and chairs the ANMM Audience, Programs, Outreach and Education Committee. From 2007 to 2013 she was a councillor of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia’s oldest scholarly historical society. At the University of Sydney, she is a member of the Art Advisory Committee and the Heritage Advisory Group, both established to advise on matters of museum and heritage policies.

Julia has worked on a number of consultancies including the Blue Mountains World Heritage Nomination (as historical respondent for the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Domicelj Consultants), UNSW WomenResearch21, and various historical surveys on overseas students, women and engineers for UNSW.

Julia was assistant editor of Australian Cultural History and currently peer reviews for the Journal of Australian Studies, International Journal of Tourism Research, History Australia andHistory of Education Review among others.

She has judged several history prizes including the NSW Premier’s History Awards, the Frank Broeze Prize for Maritime History and the Hazel de Berg Prize for Oral History.