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Richard Scully, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of New England

Solemnity and celebration: how political cartoonists have handled the death of a monarch, from Victoria to Elizabeth II

Francis Carruthers Gould, 'The Mourner', Fun, February 2, 1901.

It sounds very familiar – a well-respected monarch dies, and a radical, left-leaning, Antipodean cartoonist struggles to find the right tone to commemorate the event.

He is torn between his distaste for what he sees as the archaic, pre-modern institution of monarchy, and the undoubted personal quality of the late incumbent.

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