Gordon Pentland

Gordon Pentland is Professor of History at Monash University. He has published widely on the political history of Britain since the late eighteenth century. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History (2018).

Gordon Pentland reviews 'Jeremy Bentham and Australia', edited by Tim Causer, Margot Finn, and Philip Schofield, and 'Panopticon versus New South Wales and Other Writings on Australia', edited by Tim Causer and Philip Schofield

December 2022, no. 449 • 25 November 2022

On the centenary of Jeremy Bentham’s death in 1932, there was widespread and somewhat macabre interest in the Australian press in the commemorative dinner at University College London, at which Bentham’s famous auto-icon made an appearance as the guest of honour. Some of the more serious commentary sought to educate readers about this ‘human bridge between the thought of the eighteenth and n ... (read more)