Marc Brodie - School of Historical Studies Staff

Personal History

After completing my undergraduate degree at Monash, I worked for a decade in (Victorian State) politics and other administrative and policy roles before returning to History study to complete a M.A. at the University of Melbourne and a doctorate at the University of Oxford.

Current Research

I am working on an Australian Research Council funded study of the influence of local conditions on the transformation of traditional ideas into modern political cultures and attitudes, particularly comparing late 18th/early 19th century Britain and colonial Australia. I am particularly interested in the role of social distrust in the development of political cultures.

Major Publications

Books
The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004
Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia, Monash University ePress, Melbourne 2005 [Edited, with Graeme Davison]

Major journal articles
'Voting in the Victorian and Edwardian East End of London',Parliamentary History, Vol.23, Part 2, 2004, pp. 225-248
' "A valuable but minority section": The Country Townspeople's League and responses to farmer politics in 1920s Victorian country towns', History Australia, Vol.1, No.1, Dec. 2003, pp. 58-72
'Free trade and cheap theatre: sources of politics for the nineteenth-century London poor', Social History, Vol.28, No.3, Oct. 2003, pp. 346-361

Chapters in books
'Late Victorian and Edwardian Slum Conservatism: how different were the politics of the London Poor', in M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (eds.), London Politics 1760-1914, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005
'The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars', in G.Davison and M.Brodie (eds.), Struggle Country: the rural ideal in twentieth century Australia, Monash University ePress, Melbourne 2005

Areas of Research & Supervision

British nineteenth century urban and working-class history; Australian regional political history; popular conservatism.

Teaching

INT1010 - Contemporary Worlds 1
INT1020 - Contemporary Worlds 2
HSY2/3055 - Murder and Mayhem: The London Underworld from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
HYM4640 - The World Since 1900
GLM4000 - Globalising research methods
GLM5000 - Global Research Project
GLM5001 - Global Workplace Project