Lecturer in World History, Dr Daniel Grey, has received a one month fellowship worth $3500 to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas to work on a project entitled,
‘Witnessing New Laws Made and Fresh Crimes Created: The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology and Changing Ideas of Sexual Violence 1913-1947'.
This research will also feed into Dr Grey’s book, 'Feminist Campaigns against Child Sexual Abuse: Britain and India, 1860-1947', with Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Dr Grey has already tackled some of these questions in his introduction to a special edition of Law, Crime and History entitled The Child at Risk in Modern Britain in 2017.
Other recent work by Dr Grey include, 'No Crime to Kill a Bastard–Child: Stereotypes of Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales' in Barbara Leonardi, Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (2018).
Find out more about the Harry Ransom Center and the BSSSP archives.