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Professor John Horne

Fellow Emeritus (History)

 jhorne@tcd.ie

 


Biography

A member of the Department of History in Trinity College Dublin since 1977, I was appointed to a personal chair in Modern European History in 2003. Initially a labour and social historian, I have engaged with cultural history for the last fifteen years, especially relating to the study of the Great War, without renouncing my earlier commitment to social history. France has been at the centre of my interests, but I have always done comparative history at the level of research as well as at that of conceptualization and reflection. More recently, I have been drawn by the question of how to write the contemporary history of Europe at a transnational level, rather than as a set of comparative national histories. In addition to being an executive member of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (France), I am on the Management Committee of EURHISTXX, a European contemporary history network made up of twelve research institutes and history departments across Europe. In 2008 I was appointed the first director of the new Centre for War Studies in TCD. I have supervised PhD theses in many aspects of First World War studies in different countries and in various fields of twentieth century French history.

Representations

Details Date
Member of the editorial advisory board of European Review of History/Revue européenne d'histoire.
Irish correspondent for Vingtième siècle (Paris)

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member of comité directeur of the Centre de Recherche, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (France)
Steering committee of EURHIST XX [a research consortium of departments and institutes across Europe developing 'European' approaches to the writing of 20 th century European history]
'Atrocities and War Crimes' in, editor(s)Jay Winter , Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. 1, Global War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp561 - 583, [John Horne], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'The Living' in, editor(s)Jay Winter , Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. 3, Civil Society, Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp592 - 617, [John Horne], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'The Great War at its Centenary' in, editor(s)Jay Winter , Cambridge History of the First World War, chapter 3, Civil Society, Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp618 - 639, [John Horne], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
John Horne, 'Réflexions pour un centenaire', La Revue Générale, 149, (3/4), 2014, p8 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
John Horne and Edward Madigan, Towards Commemoration: Ireland in the Decade of War and Revolution, 1912-1923, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2013, 1 - 175pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Defending victory: paramilitary politics in France, 1918-1926 in, editor(s)Robert Gerwarth & John Horne , Paramiltary Violence in Europe after the First World War, 1917-1923, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, [John Horne], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
'Beyond Cultures of Victory and Defeat? Inter-War Veteran Internationallism' in, editor(s)Julia Eichenberg and John Paul Newman , The Great War and Veterans' Internationalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp207 - 222, [John Horne], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
John Horne, 'Guerres prémonitoires? Visions croisées des conflits balkaniques (1912-1913). France et Grande-Bretagne', Francia, 40, 2013, p455 - 464, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
John Horne and Robert Gerwarth (eds.), War in Peace. Paramiltary Violence in Europe after the First World War, 1917-1923, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 1 - 254pp, Notes: [Translated into Latvian, Lithuanian and German (2013)], Book, PUBLISHED
Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War: an introduction in, War in Peace. Paramiltary Violence in Europe after the First World War, 1917-1923, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, [John Horne & Robert Gerwarth], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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John Horne, ''Le front'', Vu du front. Représenter la Grande Guerre, 2014, Musée de l'Armée/ Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, 2014, 17 - 28, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
John Horne, 'The Global Legacies of World War One', Current History, 113, (November), 2014, p299 - 304, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Horne J., Journal of Modern History, 77, (2), 2005, p429-30 , Review, PUBLISHED
Horne J., History (Institute for Historical Research, London), 2005, Review, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2005

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

1. France and the Great War: a Cultural and Social History . A history of French experience in the Great War that uses primary research and the latest monographs at the national level to generate the framework of analysis while testing the arguments and providing detailed evidence through four local studies. 2. Cultural demobilization in inter-war Europe, 1919-39. Subject of edited volume from conference organized in September 2001. Related individual research projects on the cultural history of the League of Nations and Utopian housing projects in interwar Paris. 3. War crimes and war crimes trials in historical perspective. Subject of one-day seminar to be run in the summer of 2005, the proceedings to be published. 4. Rupture- remembrance-renewal: post-war period periods in 20 th century European history. A collaborative research project run by a consortium of history departments and research institutes across Europe (EURHIST XX).