Richard J.B. Bosworth taught European History between 1969 and 1986 at the University of Sydney. Since 1987, he has been at the University of Western Australia, where he holds a chair. He has been a Visiting Fellow at a number of institutions, including the Italian Academy at Columbia University, Clare Hall (Cambridge), Balliol College (Oxford), and the Humanities Research Centre (ANU, Canberra). He is one of the world’s leading authorities on twentieth-century Italian history: he has recently published a biography of Mussolini (Arnold, Oxford 2002), while his previous books include "Italy and the Wider World: 1860–1960".