Browse by University of Northampton Authors

Article

• Gray, D. (2018) Exorcising a demon?: Why History needs to engage with the Whitechapel Murders and dispel the myth of ‘Jack the Ripper’. Humanities. 7(2), p. 52. 2076-0787.
• Gray, D. (2013) Gang crime and the media in late nineteenth-century London: the Regent’s Park murder of 1888. Cultural and Social History. 10(4), pp. 559-575. 1478-0038.
• Gray, D. (2013) Making law in mid-eighteenth-century England: legal statutes and their application in the justicing notebook of Phillip Ward of Stoke Doyle. The Journal of Legal History. 34(2), pp. 211-233. 0144-0365.
• Gray, D. and King, P. J. R. (2013) The killing of Constable Linnell: the impact of xenophobia and of elite connections on eighteenth-century justice. Family & Community History. 16(1), pp. 3-31. 1463-1180.
• 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.
• 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.

Book Section

• 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. D. (ed.) Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical Context. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 141-159.

Book

• Gray, D. (2016) Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914. London: Bloomsbury. 9781441117656.
• Gray, D. (2010) London's Shadows: the Dark Side of the Victorian City. London, England: Continuum. 9781847252425.
• 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.

Conference or Workshop Item

• Gray, D. (2017) Jack the Ripper and ‘Fake News’: Myth and Reality in the Whitechapel Murder Case. Invited Presentation presented to: Jack the Ripper and ‘Fake News’: Myth and Reality in the Whitechapel Murder Case, Syracuse University, Faraday House, London, 05 June 2017.
• Gray, D. (2017) 'Mercy without justice'? Press criticism of the pardoning process in late Eighteenth-Century London: the Kennedy case of 1770. Paper presented to: CFP: Lives, Trials and Executions: Perspectives on Crime, c.1700-c.1900, Liverpool John Moores University, 24 May 2017.
• Gray, D. (2013) Putting undergraduates on trial: using the Old Bailey online in teaching and assessment. Invited Presentation presented to: Our Criminal Past: Educating Historians of Crime: Classroom, Archives, Community, Leeds Metropolitan University, 06 September 2013. (Unpublished)
• Gray, D. (2013) The City Summary Courts in the late 18th century: courts for the people? Paper presented to: Guildhall Library Events, Guildhall Library, City of London, 2013-07-03.
• Gray, D. (2013) The City Summary Courts in the late 18th century: courts for the people? Paper presented to: Guildhall Library Events, Guildhall Library, City of London, 2013-07-03.
• 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. (Unpublished)
• Gray, D. (2012) Justice at its roots: the current state of research into summary proceedings and petty sessions in England. Paper presented to: British Crime Historians Symposium 3, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 2012-09-07.
• Gray, D. (2012) Justice at its roots: the current state of research into summary proceedings and petty sessions in England. Paper presented to: British Crime Historians Symposium 3, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 2012-09-07.
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)

Thesis

• Gray, D. Summary proceedings and social relations in the city of London, c.1750-1800. PhD thesis. University of Northampton.