James Gregory (historian)

• Modern British history
• Victorian history
• cultural history
• social history
• print culture

James Gregory FRHistS
Born	James Richard Thomas Elliott Gregory [1]
Occupation(s)	Historian, academic
Academic background
Education	University of Oxford (BA, 1996) University of Cambridge (MPhil, 1997) University of Southampton (PhD, 2002)
Thesis	The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections  (2002)
Institutions	University of Bradford University of Plymouth
Notable works	Of Victorians and Vegetarians (2007)

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. ^[2] 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. ^[1]

Career

Gregory was previously employed at the University of Bradford as a lecturer in Modern British History. ^[3] He is currently Associate Professor of Modern British History and programme leader for MA History at the University of Plymouth. ^[4] He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. ^[5]

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. ^[6]

Publications

• Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain (2007)
• Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian Britain (2010)
• Victorians Against the Gallows (2011)
• The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014)
• Libraries, Books and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 (as editor, with Annika Bautz; 2018)
• The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age (2020)
• Mercy and British Culture, 1760–1960 (2021)
• Napoleon in British Culture (2025)

References

1. Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (May 2002). The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PhD thesis). University of Southampton . Retrieved 14 August 2025.
2. "James Gregory". ORCID . Retrieved 14 August 2025.
3. "Contributors". Biography . 30 (3): 461–463. 2007. ISSN   1529-1456.
4. "Dr James Gregory: Overview". University of Plymouth . Retrieved 14 August 2025.
5. "List of current Fellows" (PDF). Royal Historical Society . July 2025. p. 71. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
6. "Dr James Gregory: Research outputs". University of Plymouth . Retrieved 14 August 2025.

External links

• James Gregory publications on Academia.edu
• James Gregory at Bloomsbury Publishing
• James Gregory talks about researching the history of mercy in British culture on YouTube
• Annie Gray interviews James Gregory on the history of vegetarianism on BBC Radio 4