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Dr Richard Scully

Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities

Qualifications

PhD, Monash University; BA(Hons 1st Class), Monash University

Contact

Email: rscully@une.edu.au
Room: Arts (E11) G.41
Phone: 02 6773 2156 (or +61 2 6773 2156 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3520

Areas of Teaching

  • Modern European History 1789-2009
  • Germany 1860-1945
  • World Wars 1914-1945
  • Cultural History
  • Historiography

Research interests

  • British interactions with, and images of Germany and other European nations.
  • Global history of and historial uses of political cartoons.
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth-century British and Eurpean social, imperial, economic, military, political, gender and cultural history.

Units Coordinated

HIST324  Ashes to Ashes: Germany, 1918-1945
HIST328  Europe in War and Peace: 1914 to the Present
HIST348  Russia: from Kievan Rus to Lenin
HIST357  Vienna to Versailles: European History 1789-1918
HIST548  Russia:  from Kievan Rus to Lenin
HIST595  Understanding History

Publications

Books & Monographs
Richard Scully and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009 (with Introductory and Concluding material).

In Progress
Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
‘North Sea or German Ocean? The Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry, 1842-1914’, in Imago Mundi – the International Journal for the History of Cartography, Volume 62, Number 1, Jan. 2010 (forthcoming).

‘”A Pettish Little Emperor”: Cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Punch, 1888-1901’, in Richard Scully and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009, pp.04.1-04.28

Non-refereed publications and websites
‘The Bankruptcy of Imperial Symbols’, in Eras – Edition 7, 2005, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/discussion.php.

‘Celtic Club’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005.

‘St Patrick’s College’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005.

‘St Patrick’s Day’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005.

Book reviews
Rob Hess, Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart & George de Moore, A National Game, Melbourne: Viking Press, 2008; & James Watson (ed.), The History of Australian Rules Football, Melbourne: Geoff Slattery, 2008.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-10/scully-review.pdf

Matthew Frank, Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. H-German online forum (www.h-net.org/~german/, forthcoming, 2009).

Peter Limb (ed.), Orb and Sceptre: Studies on British Imperialism and its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2008, in Eras – Edition 10, 2008, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-10/scully-review2.pdf

Christopher Clarke, Iron Kingdom: the Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007, in Eras – Edition 9, 2007, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-9/final-pdf-versions/scully-review1.pdf

Paul Strangio & Brian Costar (eds), The Victorian Premiers: 1856-2006, Federation Press: Annandale, 2006, in Eras – Edition 9, 2007, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-9/final-pdf-versions/scully-review2.pdf

Stuart Macintyre & Sean Scalmer (eds), What If? Australian History as it Might Have Been, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully1review.pdf

George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade, Scribe: Melbourne, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully2review.pdf

Martin Kitchen, A History of Modern Germany: 1800-2000, Malden: Blackwell, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully3review.pdf