Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature.
By:
Haia Shpayer-Makov
Volume editor:
Janet Clark,
Rosalind Crone
General editor:
Dr. Paul Lawrence
Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 2.834kg
ISBN: 9781848933729
ISBN 10: 184893372X
Pages: 1552
Publication Date: 01 October 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
Part II Volume 4: Policing Entertainment List of Nineteenth-Century Metropolitan Police Divisions (1888) Part I: Suppression - and its Limits Charles Shaw, When I was a Child, by an Old Potter (1903), excerpt; Isaac Binns, From Village to Town (1882), excerpt; William Kelly, Notices Illustrative of the Drama (1865), excerpt; Horncastle Policemen's Notebooks (1838-57), excerpts; Superintendent Heaton's Huddersfield Crusade: Extracts from the Leeds Times, 1848-51; British Library's Fillinham Collection, Volume Four: Fairs, excerpts; 'The Bench, the Police and the Wakes', Oldham Chronicle, 3 September 1864; Reports from the Superintendent of 'F' Division, Metropolitan Police, on the Difficulties of Policing Free Vintners' Houses in London (1841-3); [John Gritton], The Lord's Day Observance Society, The Licensing Act of 1872 (1874), excerpts; Jem Mace, Fifty Years a Fighter (1908); Will Thorne, My Life's Battles (1925), excerpts; 'Football in the Streets and Parks', Preston Herald, 29 March 1884; Police Reports on Street Betting in Kingston (1894) and West Ham (1896); Betting at Sporting Events within the Metropolitan Police District (1909-10) Case Study I: The Suppression of Guy Fawkes Celebrations in Lewes, 1847 [M A Lower], 'An Old Inhabitant', Observations on the Doings in Lewes on the Evening of the Fifth of November 1846 (1847); Petition of Lewes Householders to the Magistrates, September 1847; Brighton Gazette, October-November 1847, excerpts; Depositions of the Officers of the East Sussex Constabulary for the Assize Court Part II: Compromise and Co-Existence Complaint Book, 'H' or Whitechapel Division, London Metropolitan Police, 1843-6, excerpts; James Bent, Criminal Life: Reminiscences of 42 Years as a Police Officer (1891), excerpts; Correspondence of Charles Babbage (1859-68), excerpts; Street Music and the Metropolitan Police, 1894-5; Hugh Shimmin, Liverpool Life (1856), excerpts; 'Police Notebooks' (Group B), Charles Booth Archive (1897-1900), excerpts; H. R. P. Gamon, The London Police Court, Today and Tomorrow (1907), excerpts; Minutes of the Manchester Watch Committee, 1894-6, excerpts; Policing the Seaside: Excerpts from the Blackpool Police General Orders and the Chief Constable of Blackpool's Reports to the Watch Committee, 1887-1913 Part III: Cooperation and Protection 'Lord' George Sanger, Seventy Years a Showman (1908), excerpts; Further extracts from the British Library's Fillinham Collection, Volume Four: Fairs; Protecting the Fairgrounds of Greater London, 1855-88: Extracts from the Home Office Papers on Fairs; Extracts from the Metropolitan Police Orders, 1871; Policing Association Football: Extracts from the Athletic News, 1888-96 Case Study II: The Metropolitan Police and the Protection of London's Theatrical Culture Timothy Cavanagh, Scotland Yard Past and Present (1893), excerpts; Extracts from the Lord Chamberlain's Papers, 1843-65; [Mrs William Pitt Byrne], Undercurrents Overlooked (1860), excerpts; Extracts from the Select Committee on Theatrical Licences and Regulations (1866) Volume 5: Policing Public Order and Politics Protest and Order Francis Raynes, An Appeal to the Public containing an Account of Services Rendered during the Disturbances in the North of England (1817), excerpts; Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis; with, the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee; and, an Appendix of Sundry Papers (1816), excerpt; Frank Ongley Darvall, Popular Disturbances and Public Order in Regency England (1934), excerpt; Selection on disturbances at Queen Caroline's funeral and the funerals of Richard Honey and George Frances shot dead by soldiers (1821), excerpts; 'Trials of the Bristol Rioters', Entry of the Special Commissioners; Sermon at the Cathedral; Charge to the Grand Jury; Finding the Bills; and other Interesting Particulars (1832), excerpt; Key, Mayor, 'An Especial Court held on Friday the Fourth day of November, 1831, and in the Second year of the reign of William the Fourth, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Etc.' (1831) The New Police and Public Order 'An Authentic Account of the Riotous Meeting near Grey's Inn Road; with Full Particulars of the Sad Murder of Robert Cully a Policeman, and the Stabbing of Serj. Brookes' (1833); Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Police (1833), excerpt; Selection on Chartist disturbances 1848 and Lord Mayor's Report (1848), excerpts; Selections from Metropolitan Police Orders 12 March 1848 and 8-13 April 1848, and Metropolitan Police Order 12 June 1848 (1848), excerpts; Selections from correspondence between the Duke of Wellington, Sir Richard Mayne Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Home Secretary Sir George Grey (1848), excerpts; First Report of Commissioners, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (1851), excerpts; Selections from correspondence between the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, the Exhibition Commissioners and the Home Secretary (1850-1), excerpts Political Protest and Public Space Selections on Hyde Park Riots 1855, 1862 and 1866 (1855-66), excerpts; Report on Alleged Disturbances on Public Peace in Hyde Park on Sunday 1 July 1855 (1855), excerpts; 'Summary of Police Reports Received in the Home Office with Reference to Political Meetings held in the Metropolis during the Years 1867-1870 Inclusive' (1871), excerpt; Joseph Clayton, Militant Methods in History (1913), excerpt; Trafalgar Square Riots 1887, cuttings from the Pall Mall Gazette relating to disturbances from 18 October to 24 December 1887 (1887), excerpts; John E Williams, The Early History of the Social Democratic Federation (1886), excerpt; Funeral of Alfred Linnell - Letter from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren to the Home Office (1887); William Morris, 'Alfred Linnell Killed in Trafalgar Square, A Death Song' (1887); Selections on the appointment of 'Specials' by the City of London Police during the Trafalgar Square disturbances in 1887 (1887), excerpts; George Macaulay Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (1913), excerpt Militant Women: Public Expression and Secret Police Report of the Departmental Committee on the Duties of the Police with Respect to the Preservation of Order at Public Meetings (1909), excerpt; Treatment of the Women's Deputations of November 18th, 22nd and 23rd, 1910, by the Police (1911); F W Pethick-Lawrence, 'The Man's Share' (Mr Pethick Lawrence's Defence of Militancy delivered from the Dock of the Old Bailey on May 20th 1912) (1912), excerpt; Dame Christabel Pankhurst, The Militant Methods of the NWSPU (1913), excerpt; Ian Adams, 'The Memoires of an Old Detective 1910-1937: Ralph Kitchener' (2010), unpublished; Sir Basil Thomson, The Scene Changes (1937), excerpt Volume 6: The Development of Detective Policing Part I: Evolution of Police Detection 1. Milestones in the Development of the Detective Police: Third Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis (1818), excerpt; Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (1822), excerpt; Report from the Select Committee on the Petition of Frederick Young and Others (1833), excerpts; Memorandum relative to detective powers of the police (1842); Police Orders, 14 August 1862, excerpt; Report of the Departmental Committee on the Metropolitan Police (1868), excerpts; Report of the Departmental Commission on the State, Discipline, and Organisation of the Detective Force of the Metropolitan Police (1878), excerpts; Report of the Departmental Commission on the State, Discipline, and Organisation of the Metropolitan Police Force (Other than the Criminal Investigation Department) (1879), excerpt; C. E. Howard Vincent, A Police Code and Manual of the Criminal Law (1881), excerpts; James Monro, A Report on the History of the Convict Supervision Office (1886); Patrick Mcintyre, 'Scotland Yard', Reynolds's Newspaper, 3 February-19 May 1895, excerpts; Melville L Macnaghten, Days of My Years (1914), excerpt; Circular by C E Troup to the Chief Constables, Borough Police, 20 April 1906; Letter by A C Bruce (Acting Commissioner) to Under Secretary of State, 15 September 1909 Part II: Representations of the Detective Police 2. Changing Attitudes in the Press Towards Police Detectives: 'The Press and the Police', Journalist, 4 December 1889; 'Effiency of the Metropolitan Police', Examiner, 30 April 1842; Editorial, The Times, 2 December 1845; 'Police Detectives', Leisure Hour, 29 October 1857; 'Detectives as they Are', Chambers's Journal, 9 July 1870; Editorial, Daily News, 21 November 1877; 'Detectives', Saturday Review, 9 February 1884; 'Detectives and their Work', All the Year Round, 25 April 1885; 'The Police and the Criminals of London - I.', Pall Mall Gazette, 8 October 1888, excerpt; 'Arrested!', Daily News, 1 August 1910, excerpt; William Henry Harris: 'Police and Perjury', Penny Illustrated Paper, 1 October 1910; 'The Detective Service from Within', Penny Illustrated Paper, 8 October 1910. 3. The Image of Police Detectives in Literary Works: Pseudo-Memoirs of Detectives: Experiences of a Real Detective by Inspector F, ed. 'Waters' (1862), excerpt; Charles Martel, The Detective's Note-Book (1860), excerpts; Arthur Morrison, 'The Case of the Dead Skipper', Adventures of Martin Hewitt (1896); Vivian Grey, Stories of Scotland Yard (1906), excerpt. 4. Portraits and Self-Portraits of Police Detectives: Ex-Detective Inspectors Baum and Mutton: 'Ex-Detective Inspr. J Baum', Police Review and Parade Gossip, 24 August 1900; 'Ex-Det. Inspr. W. Mutton', Police Review and Parade Gossip, 24 January 1902; 'On Duty in Plain Clothes', Cassell's Saturday Journal, 28 May 1892; John Sweeney, At Scotland Yard (1904), excerpts; Robert A Fuller, Recollections of a Detective (1912), excerpts Index
Paul Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. He is the co-author of Crime and Justice 1750-1950 (Willan, 2005), History and Crime (Sage, 2007) and the editor of The New Police in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011). He has published widely on many aspects of crime and policing and has conducted archival research into policing in England, France and Germany. He directs the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. Janet Clark is a former doctoral student and researcher at the Open University and the author of The National Council for Civil Liberties and the policing of Interwar Politics: At Liberty to Protest (Manchester University Press, 2011) as well as numerous articles on public order policing in journals including Twentieth Century British History. Rosalind Crone is a Lecturer in the History Department at the Open University and a member of the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. Her work addresses the amusements and pastimes patronised by ordinary Londoners, the education of criminals in the nineteenth century and the history of reading. She has published articles on crime and policing in Historical Journal, Cultural and Social History and Journal of Victorian Culture. Haia Shpayer-Makov is a Professor of History at the University of Haifa and has published widely on many aspects of nineteenth-century police history. Key publications include The Making of a Policeman: The Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914 (Ashgate, 2002) and The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England (OUPress, 2011).
