Richard Scully
Biographic Data
| ID | 4489904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Scully |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Scully |
| SIGNATURE | SCULLY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4012-4991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927). Long known as a useful source for historians of Melbourne in the colonial era, and recognised as a vibrant Bohemian magazine in its early days, Melbourne Punch is also known a…
Punch versus Punch: The Rise and (Rapid) Fall of the London Charivari in Australia, 1905–1907
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism
Germany in the Melbourne Punch , 1855–1914: British Entanglement or Autonomous Developments
Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
For Gorsake, Stop Laughing: This is Serious!”—Australia’s Fragile Cartooning Archive
Stan Cross’s “For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!” (Smith’s Weekly, 1933) is the symbol and bellwether of the Australian cartooning tradition. It is often lionised as a national treasure, but its archival history has been perilous in a way that shows a lack of care amounting almost to national negligence. The original of this most famous cartoon of the Depression era was lost for 80 years before being rediscovered in 2014, and this artic…
Voices of Challenge in Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press
Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil 's Political Cartoons
George VI in cartoons: The king vanishes
This article examines the depiction of George VI in cartoons. These important hybrid journalistic/artistic forms reflect a subtle shift in understandings of the monarchy, from emphasising the individual personality of the incumbent (e.g. Edward VIII), towards a focus on the crown as an impersonal institution, symbolic of Britishness. Prince Albert’s low profile prior to his accession continued as a vehicle for the new manner of imagining the mona…
The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press
Britain in the Melbourne Punch
This article explores the representation of Britain and the British by cartoonists in the Melbourne Punch. Just as in the London Punch, representative figures, together with caricatures of politicians and notables, were deployed in constant dialogue with the events of the day. Where Melbourne-based cartoonists used such characters critically, they did not position themselves as distinct or separate from a British identity, but integrated readers …
Satire and politics: The interplay of heritage and practice
Satire and Politics is the first in a new series of "Palgrave Studies in Comedy", and is a welcome addition to the field of humour studies, both in that capacity and also as a standalone book. The volume had its origins in an Australasian Humour Studies Network panel of 2015, and while its contents therefore reflect serious scholarship and academic engagement with its subject matter, it is also a very readable work. Both the editor–Jessica Milner…
Antipodean Perspectives — (Nearly) Fifty Years of the Australasian Association for European History (Aaeh)
As R.J.B. Bosworth noted rather archly in 2000, the Australasian Association for European History technically "does not exist". With no membership, no fees, no office holders, no secretariat, no archive, and no constitution, this loose but persistent association has nevertheless been a major touchstone for the broad field of European history, and helped sustain the world-leading contribution to that field made by Australian and New Zealand-based …
A Family Business: The Bartholomews of Edinburgh in the First World War
This article examines the lived experience of the Bartholomew family of Edinburgh during the course of the First World War. Families, as much as nations, empires and other communities, were important participants in the conflict that collapsed the boundaries between the various battlefronts and homefront like none before. The Bartholomews’ letters to one another were the chief means by which the shared experience of total war was mediated and con…
A serious matter: Erwin D. Swann (1906-1973) and the collection of caricature and cartoon
This paper explores the origins and development of the Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, begun by Erwin D. Swann in 1966, and currently held by the Library of Congress in Washington, dc. One of the world's few collections dedicated to the preservation of original comic art by caricaturists and cartoonists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, Swann's collection also transcends national boundaries, and embraces comic art as one o…
British Images of Germany
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagin
‘North Sea’ or ‘German Ocean’? Britain and Germany in the Wider World
Although as late as the turn of the twentieth century, the chief producers of maps and atlases in Britain were more inclined to depict Germany politically as a federal nation made up of disparate elements, the sudden and unexpected expansion of the German Empire into the wider world created a new set of conventions to be adhered to. The expansion of German colonies coincided with, and was an integral part of, one of the most comprehensive redrawi…
Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism
In this provocative and elegantly written book, Molly Oshatz provides an important reframing of the theological significance of the antebellum debate over slavery. Oshatz focuses on the intellectual history of moderate antislavery Protestants who sought to preserve both Protestant orthodoxy and moral opposition to slavery in the face of an aggressive proslavery biblical argument and an abolitionist movement that elevated conscience above scriptur…
The Epitheatrical Cartoonist’: Matthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian London
This article examines the vibrant cultural milieu inhabited by one of Victorian Britain's most famous cartoonists, Matthew Somerville Morgan. Morgan is well-known as the cartoonist who attacked Queen Victoria's withdrawal from public life (and her associations with John Brown), and the lifestyle of Albert, Prince of Wales, in the short-lived rival to Punch: the Tomahawk. Likewise, his post-1870 career in New York as cartoonist of the 'Caricature …
North Sea or German Ocean’? The Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry, 1842–1914
From 1842, British and German commercial cartographers established a profitable relationship based on mutual cooperation and the exchange of expertise. The links between the mapmakers of Edinburgh and Gotha, so strong that they amounted to a form of ‘freemasonry’, underpinned the production of many of the key British atlases of the period. The relationship fitted broader patterns of Anglo-German cultural affinity that were broken only by the outb…
Satire and politics: The interplay of heritage and practice
Satire and Politics is the first in a new series of "Palgrave Studies in Comedy", and is a welcome addition to the field of humour studies, both in that capacity and also as a standalone book. The volume had its origins in an Australasian Humour Studies Network panel of 2015, and while its contents therefore reflect serious scholarship and academic engagement with its subject matter, it is also a very readable work. Both the editor–Jessica Milner…
North Sea or German Ocean’? The Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry, 1842–1914
From 1842, British and German commercial cartographers established a profitable relationship based on mutual cooperation and the exchange of expertise. The links between the mapmakers of Edinburgh and Gotha, so strong that they amounted to a form of ‘freemasonry’, underpinned the production of many of the key British atlases of the period. The relationship fitted broader patterns of Anglo-German cultural affinity that were broken only by the outb…
The Epitheatrical Cartoonist’: Matthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian London
This article examines the vibrant cultural milieu inhabited by one of Victorian Britain's most famous cartoonists, Matthew Somerville Morgan. Morgan is well-known as the cartoonist who attacked Queen Victoria's withdrawal from public life (and her associations with John Brown), and the lifestyle of Albert, Prince of Wales, in the short-lived rival to Punch: the Tomahawk. Likewise, his post-1870 career in New York as cartoonist of the 'Caricature …
British Images of Germany
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagin
‘North Sea’ or ‘German Ocean’? Britain and Germany in the Wider World
Although as late as the turn of the twentieth century, the chief producers of maps and atlases in Britain were more inclined to depict Germany politically as a federal nation made up of disparate elements, the sudden and unexpected expansion of the German Empire into the wider world created a new set of conventions to be adhered to. The expansion of German colonies coincided with, and was an integral part of, one of the most comprehensive redrawi…
Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism
In this provocative and elegantly written book, Molly Oshatz provides an important reframing of the theological significance of the antebellum debate over slavery. Oshatz focuses on the intellectual history of moderate antislavery Protestants who sought to preserve both Protestant orthodoxy and moral opposition to slavery in the face of an aggressive proslavery biblical argument and an abolitionist movement that elevated conscience above scriptur…
A serious matter: Erwin D. Swann (1906-1973) and the collection of caricature and cartoon
This paper explores the origins and development of the Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, begun by Erwin D. Swann in 1966, and currently held by the Library of Congress in Washington, dc. One of the world's few collections dedicated to the preservation of original comic art by caricaturists and cartoonists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, Swann's collection also transcends national boundaries, and embraces comic art as one o…
Antipodean Perspectives — (Nearly) Fifty Years of the Australasian Association for European History (Aaeh)
As R.J.B. Bosworth noted rather archly in 2000, the Australasian Association for European History technically "does not exist". With no membership, no fees, no office holders, no secretariat, no archive, and no constitution, this loose but persistent association has nevertheless been a major touchstone for the broad field of European history, and helped sustain the world-leading contribution to that field made by Australian and New Zealand-based …
A Family Business: The Bartholomews of Edinburgh in the First World War
This article examines the lived experience of the Bartholomew family of Edinburgh during the course of the First World War. Families, as much as nations, empires and other communities, were important participants in the conflict that collapsed the boundaries between the various battlefronts and homefront like none before. The Bartholomews’ letters to one another were the chief means by which the shared experience of total war was mediated and con…
Satire and politics: The interplay of heritage and practice
Satire and Politics is the first in a new series of "Palgrave Studies in Comedy", and is a welcome addition to the field of humour studies, both in that capacity and also as a standalone book. The volume had its origins in an Australasian Humour Studies Network panel of 2015, and while its contents therefore reflect serious scholarship and academic engagement with its subject matter, it is also a very readable work. Both the editor–Jessica Milner…
Britain in the Melbourne Punch
This article explores the representation of Britain and the British by cartoonists in the Melbourne Punch. Just as in the London Punch, representative figures, together with caricatures of politicians and notables, were deployed in constant dialogue with the events of the day. Where Melbourne-based cartoonists used such characters critically, they did not position themselves as distinct or separate from a British identity, but integrated readers …
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil 's Political Cartoons
George VI in cartoons: The king vanishes
This article examines the depiction of George VI in cartoons. These important hybrid journalistic/artistic forms reflect a subtle shift in understandings of the monarchy, from emphasising the individual personality of the incumbent (e.g. Edward VIII), towards a focus on the crown as an impersonal institution, symbolic of Britishness. Prince Albert’s low profile prior to his accession continued as a vehicle for the new manner of imagining the mona…
The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press
Voices of Challenge in Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press
Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press
For Gorsake, Stop Laughing: This is Serious!”—Australia’s Fragile Cartooning Archive
Stan Cross’s “For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!” (Smith’s Weekly, 1933) is the symbol and bellwether of the Australian cartooning tradition. It is often lionised as a national treasure, but its archival history has been perilous in a way that shows a lack of care amounting almost to national negligence. The original of this most famous cartoon of the Depression era was lost for 80 years before being rediscovered in 2014, and this artic…
Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
Germany in the Melbourne Punch , 1855–1914: British Entanglement or Autonomous Developments
Punch versus Punch: The Rise and (Rapid) Fall of the London Charivari in Australia, 1905–1907
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism
The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927). Long known as a useful source for historians of Melbourne in the colonial era, and recognised as a vibrant Bohemian magazine in its early days, Melbourne Punch is also known a…
History (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)