Staff Directory: Dr Drew Gray

  • Role: Senior Lecturer in History of Crime
  • Area: Social Sciences - History
  • Office location: Park campus

I work on criminal justice history across the 18th and 19th centuries specialising in the role of the Justice of the Peace. I am currently working on youth crime and supervising doctoral work on the summary process. My most recent book (London's Shadows) has just been made available in Kindle format. I am course leader for History joint honours here at UoN and run the history twitter feed @HistoryatUoN

I currently teach on a number of History modules within the UG and PG curriculum as well as contributing the Criminology programme here. At masters level I offer two courses - one on the history of violence and the other on gender and crime. At undergraduate level I teach modules on the History of British Heritage in Year one; Crime, Policing & Punishment in Year two and a specialist crime topic in Year three which focus on the Whitechapel murders of 1888. I also contribute towards the Research skills programme and supervise dissertations at UG and PG levels.

I have research interests in a number of fields relating to the history of crime and justice including the summary courts and the role of the magistracy, youth crime and changing attitudes to violence. More broadly I am interested in the social history of London in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Publications on NECTAR


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2012

  1. Gray, D. (2012) Justice at its roots: the current state of research into summary proceedings and petty sessions in England. Invited Presentation presented to: British Crime Historians Symposium 3, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 06-07 September 2012.
  2. Gray, D. (2012) Policing the City of London, c.1780-1829. Invited Presentation presented to: Londonicity 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference, University of London, 22-24 June 2012.
  3. Gray, D. (2012) “Concealing my want of power”: social relations and the magistracy in Northamptonshire in the long eighteenth century. Invited Presentation presented to: North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) 2012, Montreal, Canada, 09-11 November 2012.

2011

  1. Gray, D. (2011) Contextualising the Ripper murders: poverty, crime and unrest in the East End of London, 1888. Invited Keynote presented to: Jack the Ripper Through a Wider Lens: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, 28-29 October 2011.

2010

  1. Gray, D. (2010) Gang crime in the shadow of the ripper: the Regent's Park murder of 1888. Invited Presentation presented to: Institute of Historical Research Seminar, University of London, England, 11 November 2010.
  2. Gray, D. (2010) London's Shadows: the Dark Side of the Victorian City. London, England: Continuum. 9781847252425.
  3. Gray , D. (2010) Not catching Jack: the Metropolitan Police and the hunt for the Whitechapel murderer. Invited Presentation presented to: Raunds and District History Society, Raunds, Northamptonshire, 04 November 2010.
  4. Gray, D. (2010) The regulation of crime in the nineteenth century. Invited Presentation presented to: Crime and Punishment in the Long Nineteenth Century, Oxford, England, 27 March 2010.

2009

  1. Gray, D. (2009) 'For a sheep or a lamb': the eighteenth-century criminal justice system. Invited Presentation presented to: Raunds and District History Society, Raunds, Northamptonshire, 1 October 2009.
  2. Gray, D. (2009) Crime, Prosecution and Social Relations: The Summary Courts of the City of London in the Late Eighteenth Century. Basingtsoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230203976.
  3. Gray, D. (2009) Getting the bloggers to read: using weblogs in undergraduate teaching. Invited Presentation presented to: E-learning Near and Far: Using Technology in Teaching History, University of Wolverhampton, 11 November 2009.

2008

  1. Gray, D. (2008) "An example of that unity, and of that dependence of parts on each other, without which no well constructed and efficient system of police can ever be expected" : policing the city of London, c. 1780-1829. Paper presented to: European Social Science History (ESSHC) Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February - 1 March 2008.
  2. Gray, D. (2008) Not catching Jack: the Metropolitan Police and the hunt for the Whitechapel murderer. Paper presented to: University of Northampton Retired Staff Association, University of Northampton, December 2008.
  3. Gray, D. (2008) Putting undergraduates on trial: using the Old Bailey Online as a teaching tool. Paper presented to: The Metropolis on Trial Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 10 - 12 July 2008.
  4. Gray, D. (2008) The Old Bailey Online as an EBA (enquiry based learning). Paper presented to: 10th HEA/HCA (Higher Education Academy/History Classic Archaeology) Annual Conference, Lady Margaret's Hall, University of Oxford, England, April 2008.
  5. Gray, D. (2008) The people's courts? Summary justice and social relations in the City of London, c.1760–1800. Family & Community History. 11(1), pp. 7-15. 1463-1180.
  6. Gray, D. (2008) You can't trust a special like an old time copper: policing Northamptonshire before the Police. Paper presented to: Creaton Historical Association Meeting, Creaton, Northamptonshire, October 2008.

2007

  1. Gray, D. (2007) Bull-running, dangerous driving and the regulation of the streets of London, c.1780-1820. Paper presented to: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, 4-6 January 2007.
  2. Gray, D. (2007) Settling their differences: the nature of assault and its prosecution in the City of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In: Watson, K. (ed.) Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical Context. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 141-159.
  3. Gray, D. (2007) The people’s courts? Summary justice and social relations in the City of London, c.1760-1800. Paper presented to: Urban Living: Society, Culture and Politics in the English Town, 1700-1850, University of Northampton, 5-6 July 2007.
  4. Gray, D. (2007) The regulation of violence in the metropolis. The prosecution of assault in the summary courts, c.1780-1820. The London Journal. 32(1), pp. 75-87. 1749-6322.

2006

  1. Gray, D. (2006) Summary proceedings and social relations in the city of London, c.1750-1800. Doctoral thesis. The University of Northampton.
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Other publications


Books

Crime, Prosecution and Social Relations: the summary courts of the City of London in the Late Eighteenth Century (Palgrave, 2009) (http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230246164

My second, London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian Capital (Bloomsbury, 2010) (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/londons-shadows-9781441147202/

 

Articles

'Gang crime and the media in late nineteenth-century London: the Regent's Park murder of 1888', Cultural & Social History, (forthcoming 2013)

'Making Law in mid-Eighteenth-Century England: Legal Statutes and their Application in the Justicing Notebook of Phillip Ward of Stoke Doyle', Journal of Legal History, (forthcoming 2013)

(with Peter King) 'The Killing of Constable Linnell: the Impact of Xenophobia and of Elite Connections on Eighteenth-century Justice', Family & Community History (forthcoming 2013)

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