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Joshua Grey

Biography

I am a first year PhD candidate at Monash University and the University of Warwick. My thesis, 'The Conservative Press and the British World, c.1780-c.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 "conservative" corpus of domestic and imperial newspapers. It investigates how we define the "conservatism" in late-Georgian Britain across distinct political networks and geographical distance. 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, divides, and larger networks of conservative thought in the late-Georgian period.

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

Member of the Royal Historical Society (Postgraduate Member)

Monash-Warwick Alliance Associate

Joshua Grey

Podcast:

My podcast, Same Old NewsLink opens in a new window, explores my thesis in more detail. Season 1 highlights 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 focuses on conservative editors, contributors and newspapers/gazettes across the British world in my period of study. Ranging from names such as John Bell and John Barrow to papers such as the Cape Town Gazette.

Season 3 is due to start in August 2025 and will build on my research into conservative satire and personal abuse through William Maginn's forays into the newspaper world.

Publications, Research Activity and Outreach

Conference Papers:

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:

Awards, Prizes and Funding:

  • Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Curran Fellowship (2025)
  • Monash University and University of Warwick, Monash-Warwick Alliance Scholarship (2024-27)
  • University of Warwick, Best Performance in the MA in History (Global & Comparative) (2023)