ABSTRACT
John Pearman was a radical, republican, freethinking policeman who worked for the Buckinghamshire Constabulary from 1857 until 1881, and who was stationed at Eton, in the environs of Windsor Castle, from February 1864, until he retired. In the 18 months or so after his retirement, he wrote his memoirs, presenting in the 278-page notebook that is introduced here, his life as a soldier and a policeman, and an analysis of the ideologies that divided people from each other, in the societies he had known and those he had read about.
