ABSTRACT

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. This Volume II of Part One.

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Introduction

part |319 pages

Contemporary Material

chapter |4 pages

Metropolitan Police act 1833

chapter |2 pages

County Police Act 1839

chapter |6 pages

Birmingham Police act 1839, Excerpts

chapter |5 pages

‘Rebecca Riots’ (1843)

chapter |12 pages

Disturbances (Metropolis) (1886)

chapter |22 pages

The Cass Case (1887)

chapter |6 pages

Local Government act 1888, Excerpts

part |173 pages

Memoir and Biography

part |24 pages

Chronicles of a Victorian Detective (1995), Excerpts

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |25 pages

Two Metropolitan Detectives