About Dr Julia Horne
Dr Julia Horne’s research interest include: The public university in Australasia 1850-1918; Various aspects of oral history including memory, biography, 'the interview', and oral history as a form of modern personal papers; Overseas students in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s and History of travel, tourism and natural landscapes.
Dr Julia Horne is University Historian. She has previously tutored and lectured in history at the University of New South Wales, worked as a curator in social history at the Powerhouse Museum and is the former head of the Oral History Program in the UNSW Archives. At the University of Sydney, the University Historian is responsible for various university history-related tasks such as maintaining the University’s oral history program, developing strategies to promote the University, its heritage and history to the wider community, and where historical information and analysis is required assisting on heritage matters as they
Areas of research supervision
- History of tertiary education (including the University of Sydney, affiliated colleges and societies)
- Overseas students in Australia
- Oral history, biography, archives and historical collections affect the University of Sydney.
Current projects
The Public University in Australasia, 1850-1918.
Selected publications
The Pursuit of Wonder: how Australia’s landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed, Miegunyah Press (2005).
Not an Ivory Tower: the making of an Australian vice-chancellor, based on interviews with Michael and Jenny Birt, UNSW Archives, Sydney 1997
Jenolan Caves. When the Tourists Came, Kingsclear Press, Crows Nest 1994
J Horne, J Ingleson, L McCarthy, P O'Farrell (eds) Locating Australia's Past: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History in New South Wales, UNSW Press, Sydney 1988.
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Articles
‘Alice Tay, the making of an intellectual’ in G. Doeker-Mach and K.A. Ziegert, Law, Legal Culture and Politics in the Twenty First Century, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004 pp491-508
‘Australia’ The Literature of Travel and Exploration: an encyclopaedia, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2003 vol. 1 pp48-52
‘Oral History as Modern Personal Papers: in defence of the long interview’ Oral History Association of Australia Journal no. 25 2003 pp28-30
Anna Iuso and Julia Horne (Australia section) ‘Archives’ Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms Fitzroy Dearborn Publisher London 2001 vol. 1 pp50-53 (c.3500 word article)