A woman who has pioneered history outreach programs and spent hundreds of hours interviewing others about their lives will deliver the seventh annual Harry Boyle Memorial Lecture.
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Dr Julia Horne has been chosen to deliver the lecture, titled History, Heritage and Home, which celebrates the contribution and achievements of Mr Boyle – one of Maitland’s most loved and respected historians.
Mr Boyle died in 2005.
Dr Horne is a historian at the University of Sydney and has also worked as a curator in social history at the Powerhouse Museum. She has been a member of the Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society since 2007 and in 2009 was appointed a member of the governing council of the Australian Maritime National Museum.
* The lecture will be held at Brough House, Church Street, Maitland on Friday, September 21, at 6.30pm.