Biography

I am a first year PhD-candidate at Monash University and the University of Warwick. My thesis, 'The Right-Wing Press and the British World, 1780-1830' is supervised by Professor David Lambert (University of Warwick) and Professor Gordon Pentland (Monash University, Australia), funded through the Monash/Warwick Joint Alliance.

I completed my BA in History and Politics at Warwick (2019-2022), followed by my MA in History (Global & Comparative) also at Warwick (2022-2023).

My research focuses on the under-utilised "right-wing" or "conservative" corpus of domestic and imperial newspapers. It investigates how we define the "right-wing" and "conservatism" in Britain in the late-Georgian period across distinct political groupings and geographical differences. It then explores how that translates into the conservative newspapers (domestic and imperial) published at that time. My research combines British political and press history with global and imperial historical methodologies to identify the continuities and divides of conservative thought in the late-Georgian period domestically and imperially.

Email: Joshua.Grey@warwick.ac.uk or Joshua.Grey@monash.edu

Member of the Royal Historical Society (Postgraduate Member)

Monash-Warwick Alliance Associate

Podcast:

My podcast, Same Old NewsLink opens in a new window, explores my thesis in more detail. Season 1 focusses on the links that this project can have to how we perceive the present state of the press in politics and our place in it. It then discusses some of the historiographical question that need to be grappled in this project.

Season 2 is currently ongoing and focuses on conservative editors, contributors and newspapers/gazettes across the British world in my period of study.

Publications, Research Activity and Outreach

Conference Papers:

• 'Confronting the Whig Interpretation of Press History in Britain and its Empire' (Monash University History HDR Conference, October 2024).
• 'Corruption is in the Eye of the Beholder: British Corruption Discourse and How it Influenced Perceptions of China in the Early Nineteenth Century' (University of Warwick History Department Postgraduate Conference, May 2023).

Conference Organisation:

• Assistant Organiser, Warwick Global History and Culture Centre Annual Conference, University of Warwick (May 2023)

• Organising Committee Member, University of Warwick Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick (May 2023).

Blog Posts:

• 'Imperially Structuring Global Interactions: The Great Exhibition of 1851 and Popular Imperialism'Link opens in a new window, Warwick Global History and Culture Centre (2023).