Daniel Grey is Reader in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire.

Daniel is a social and cultural historian particularly interested in the intersections between gender, law, and medicine in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain and its Empire. He has published a number of journal articles and essays related to these topics, especially concentrating on the history of infanticide, homicide and sexual violence in both Britain and colonial India. From January-December 2025, he will be working on his project Degrees of Guilt: Infanticide in England 1860-1960 generously supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Research Fellowship.

Since 2017, along with Rachel Bright, Janet Weston and Stephanie Brown, he has been a co-convenor of the ‘Deviance’, Inclusion and Exclusion strand for the SHS annual conference.

Key Publications

• “Sometimes the Worst Happens”: Newspaper Reportage of Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales Since 1922’ (2022)
• “It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prevalent”: Infanticide and the law in India, 1870-1926’ (2021)
• ‘“Monstrous and Indefensible”? Newspaper Accounts of Sexual Assaults on Children in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales’ (2020)
• ‘Creating the “Problem Hindu”: Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800-60 (2013)