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Full name Richard James Boon Bosworth Institutions University of Oxford (2012–)
University of Western Australia (1987–11)
University of Sydney (1969–86) Major works Mussolini (2002)
Mussolini's Italy (2005) Notable awards Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1995)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995)
Centenary Medal (2001)
Western Australian Premier's Book Award (2002)
Western Australian Premier's Non-Fiction Book Award (2002)
Queensland Premier's History Book Award (2003)
Western Australian Premier's Non-Fiction Book Award (2005)
New South Wales Premier's General History Prize (2006) Alma mater University of Sydney, University of Cambridge Institution University of Oxford, University of Western Australia, University of Sydney Books Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the, Whispering City: Modern R, Mussolini, Italy and the Wider World: 18, Italy the Least of the Great Po | ||
R. J. B. Bosworth on Claretta Petacci & Benito Mussolini
Richard James Boon Bosworth FAHA, FASSA (born 1943) is an Australian historian and author, and a leading expert on Fascist Italy.
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He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Sydney before going on to doctoral study at St John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia until his retirement in 2011. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and held a professorship at the University of Reading from 2007 to 2012.
He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
As a testament to Bosworth's contributions to historical non-fiction, the Indian director Gurvinder Singh Sohal immortalised Richard in one of his recent movies as the infamous Ryan Jones from Balham (R.J.B).