Associate Professor Geoff Ginn

Associate Professor of History, Discipline Convenor in History

+61 7 336 56407

g.ginn@uq.edu.au

Room E327, Forgan Smith Building (1)

Researcher biography

Geoff teaches British history and urban history in the UQ History program, as well as the second-year course on historiography (The History Makers) and the Capstone course History in Action.

Geoff’s first sole-authored book, Archangels & Archaeology: JSM Ward’s Kingdom of the Wise (Sussex Academic Press) appeared in 2012, followed by Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London (Routledge) in 2017. His current projects include the ARC Linkage project (2019-22) to develop a Queensland Atlas of Religion in partnership with the State Library of Queensland, and a monograph on the intimate politics of the Edwardian ‘New Liberals.’

Since 2005 Geoff has served on the Board of the State Library of Queensland (to 2008) and the Queensland Museum (2008-2013, 2017-present), as a member of the Board of the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, and as a judge in the Queensland Literary Awards. An active public historian and former heritage consultant, he was a Chevening Scholar to the UK in 1995-96 and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (2014).

Grants

The Queensland Atlas of Religion

(2019–2022) ARC Linkage Projects
The blood votes: a historical drama

(2018) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
"Conscription!?" The debates of 1916-17 as historical theatre

(2016–2017) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes

(2007–2009) ARC Linkage Projects
The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes

(2006–2007) UQ FirstLink Scheme

Featured projects	Duration
Urban Connections in late-Colonial Brisbane Summer Research Scholarship	2016–2017

Publications

Books (2)

Book Chapters (9)

Journal Articles (35)

Conference Papers (2)

Research Report (1)

Thesis (1)

Books

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315184999

Ginn, Geoffrey (2012). Archangels & archaeology: J.S.M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise. Portland, OR, United States: Sussex Academic Press.

Book Chapters

Martin, Richard and Ginn, Geoff (2022). 'We are all still here': anthropological perspectives on cultural change. Kirrenderri: heart of the Channel Country. (pp. 39-42) edited by Michael C. Westaway, Mandana Mapar, Tracey Hough, Shawnee Gorringe and Geoff Ginn. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2021). University extension and the settlement idea. The settlement house movement revisited: a transnational history. (pp. 91-107) edited by John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah Vicary. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Altruism and the Monks of Thelema: Ideals and Realities. Walter Besant: the business of literature and the pleasures of reform. (pp. 151-170) edited by Kevin A. Morrison. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press. doi: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0009

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Staging history in Brisbane's Anzac centenary. The Great War: aftermath and commemoration. (pp. 179-192) edited by Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.

Ginn, Geoffrey and Spearritt, Peter (2016). Cities, imperial. The encyclopedia of empire. (pp. 1-14) edited by John M. MacKenzie, Nigel Dalziel, Nicholas Doumanis and Michael W. Charney. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118455074

Ginn, Geoff, Pratt, Rod and Rough, Brian (2010). Defending colonial Queensland. 'A most promising corps': Citizen soldiers in colonial Queensland. (pp. 3-15) edited by Geoff Ginn, Hilary Davies and Brian Rough. Brisbane, Australia: Colonial Forces Study Group.

Ginn, Geoff (2010). Bell Family papers. Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 52-53) edited by Roslyn Follett. St Lucia, Qld. Australia: University of Queensland Library.

Ginn, G. A. C. (2007). South Bank and the Queensland Cultural Centre: Constructing a Visual History. New Ground: Construction Photographs by Peter Liddy. (pp. 19-26) edited by Liddy, P., Morrell, T. and Ginn, G. A. C.. Brisbane, Australia: Peter Liddy.

Ginn, Geoff and Hallam, Greg (2003). Motive Power: Animating history at the North Ipswich Railway Workshops. Industrial Cycle: photographs of the North Ipswich Railway Workshops Brisbane. (pp. 19-25) edited by Peter Liddy. Annerley, Qld: CDE Communications.

Journal Articles

Ginn, Geoff and Bowles, Adam (2024). The Saints of Silkwood. Queensland Atlas of Religion.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. and Featherstone, Lisa (2021). Editorial note. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67 (1), 1-1. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12767

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2020). Review of Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (1), 176-177. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12660

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Book review: Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12558

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2018). Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, 40 (4), 411-412. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2018.1481638

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). The Conscription Conflict and the Great War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63 (3), 478-480. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12389

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2016). Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (1), 160-161. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12234

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2015). Review of Ten cities that made an empire. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 154-155.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2013). Impressions and inscriptions: making Brisbane Town. Queensland History Journal, 21 (12), 791-808.

Ginn, Geoff (2013). Leichhardt’s colonial panorama: social observation in his Australian diaries. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, 7 (2), 561-574.

Ginn, Geoff and Rough, Brian (2012). Grassy hills: colonial defence and coastal forts. Queensland Historical Atlas.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). Peoples on parade: exhibitions, empire, and anthropology in nineteenth-century Britain by Sadiah Qureshi. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3), 469-470. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01647.x

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). After Ruskin: The social and political legacies of a Victorian prophet, 1870-1920. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (1), 150-151. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01629.x

Ginn, Geoff (2012). Treasures in the bush. History Australia, 9 (1), 219-221.

Ginn, Geoff (2012). Surveying success: the Hume family in Colonial Queensland. History Queensland (2), 25-25.

Ginn, Geoff and Westaway, Michael (2010). Fortress Queensland 1942-45. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes

Ginn, Geoff (2010). Separation: divisions in the landscape. Queensland Historical Atlas

Ginn, Geoff (2010). Pastoralism 1860s-1915. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, cultures, landscapes (2009-10)

Ginn, Geoff (2010). War memorials. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010.

Ginn, Geoff (2010). J.S.M. Ward, 'Bishop at Large': 'Orthodox Catholicism' and church history in interwar Britain. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, V (I), 45-57.

Ginn, G. A. C. (2010). Becoming Historians. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 56 (3), 484-484. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01566.x

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2010). Holy ground and mortal promises: the campaigns for the Mothers' Memorial, Toowoomba. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (3), 331-346. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2010.498332

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2010). An Ark for England: Esoteric heritage at J. S. M. Ward's Abbey Folk Park, 1934-1940. Journal of the History of Collections, 22 (1), 129-140. doi: 10.1093/jhc/fhp033

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2009). Cilento's centenary: The triumph of his topics. Queensland Review, Special Issue (Special Issue), 57-72.

Ginn, Geoff (2008). Review of Jo Besley's Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland mental hospital, Museum of Brisbane. History Australia, 5 (2), 48.1-48.2. doi: 10.2104/ha080048

Ginn, G. A.C. (2008). Book Review: Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927. By Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54 (1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2008.00491.x

Ginn, Geoff (2007). Review of 'Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900'. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53 (1 (Special issue: Terror, Total War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century)), 149-164. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2007.00448.x

Ginn, Geoff (2006). Answering the 'Bitter Cry': Urban description and social reform in the late-Victorian East End. The London Journal: A review of metropolitan society, 31 (2), 179-200. doi: 10.1179/174963206X113160

Ginn, G. A. C. (2005). Review of Hill end: An historic Australian goldfields landscape by A Mayne. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1 (51), 125-127.

Ginn, G. A. C. (2004). How to dig a dump: Strategy and research design for investigation of Brisbane's nineteenth-century municipal dump.. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 22 (1), 15-26.

Ginn, G. A. C. (2003). Gifts of culture in the late-Victorian east end. University of Queensland Historical Proceedings, 14 (1), 13-31.

Ginn, G (2003). Ecological pioneers: A social history of Australian ecological thought and action. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (1), 114-115. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00286

Ginn, Geoff and Harris, Jeanne E. (2002). Sherds of Early Brisbane: History, Archaeology and the Convict Lumber Yard. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 18 (2), 49-67.

Grimwade, Gordon and Ginn, Geoff (2002). Strange bedfellows: Green Hill Fort, archaeology and tourism. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 20, 83-91.

Ginn, G (2002). Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The aboriginal and settler histories of a unique environment.. Australian Journal of Politics And History, 48 (1), 103-104.

Conference Papers

Ginn, Geoffrey A.C. (2013). Spectacles remembered: the retrospective vocabularies of a Victorian childhood. AVSA 2012: Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 11-14 April, 2012. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Macquarie Lighthouse E-book Publishing.

Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). Encounters with the past: an antiquarian and the British World, 1890-1916. The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia, 2-5 July 2012. Toowoomba, Qld, Australia: University of Southern Queensland.

Research Report

Ginn, Geoffrey (2002). An assessment of cultural heritage values associated with Gowrie Creek waterways: Report to Toowoomba City Council. Toowoomba, Australia: Archaeo Cultural Heritage Services.

Thesis

Ginn, Geoff (2001). Gifts of culture, centres of light. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1162

Areas of research

Australian Cultural and Social History

International History