James Gregory (historian)
James Richard Thomas Elliott Gregory is a British historian and academic. He specialises in Victorian history, cultural history, social history, and print culture. He is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Plymouth, where he also leads the MA History programme. Gregory is known for his 2007 book Of Victorians and Vegetarians, on vegetarianism in the Victorian era. His research focuses on nineteenth-century British reform movements, popular entertainment, political discourse, the history of publishing, as well as Franco-British cultural relations and cultural responses to war.
Education
Gregory studied modern history at the University of Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1996. He subsequently earned a MPhil in historical studies at the University of Cambridge in 1997. In 2002, he completed his PhD in history at the University of Southampton. His thesis was titled The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections and was supervised by John Rule; it also included an accompanying biographical index of around 1,470 vegetarians active from.Career
Gregory was previously employed at the University of Bradford as a lecturer in Modern British History. He is currently Associate Professor of Modern British History and programme leader for MA History at the University of Plymouth. He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.His research covers reform movements, popular entertainment, political discourse, eccentricity, and biography, as well as print culture, the history of publishing, and the cultural history of mercy, satire, and political change across the long nineteenth century. He has also written on vegetarianism in the Victorian era, the representation of Napoleon in British culture, Franco-British cultural relations, decolonisation, and cultural responses to war from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Publications
Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian Britain Victorians Against the Gallows The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England Libraries, Books and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age Mercy and British Culture, 1760–1960- ''Napoleon in British Culture''