Clive Emsley

British Policing: Bobbies Abroad

The standing of Britain’s police forces may be in decline at home, yet their insights into policing methods and practices are still sought eagerly elsewhere, according to Clive Emsley and Georgina Sinclair.

Published September 21 2011

David Englander

Obituary of David Englander from the Open University.

Published June 30 1999

The Origins of the Modern Police

Beginning our new series on the history and development of policing, Clive Emsley sets the scene with a broad discussion of the origins and issues of early policing in Continental Europe.

Published March 31 1999

The German Underworld

Richard J. EvansThe Victorian UnderworldDonald Thomas

Published June 30 1998

Victorian Crime

Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.

Published March 1 1998

Strange Fruit

Clive Emsley reviews two volumes on the history of capital punishment in England and Germany.

Published January 1 1997

Dead Certainties; & The London Hanged

Two new books, by Simon Schama and Peter Linebaugh.

Published August 31 1992

Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead; & In the Nineties

Popular press and culture are explored in two new texts

Published March 31 1990

Crime in 19th-Century Britain

Clive Emsley discovers the Victorian underworld and the attempts to combat it.

Published March 31 1988

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England; & Vivisection in Historical Perspective

Clive Emsley reviews

Published February 1 1988

Crime, justice and public order in old regime France

by Julius R. Ruff

Published January 1 1985

Arms and the Victorian Policeman

The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society - as it was in Victorian times.

Published November 1 1984

Rural France

Clive Emsley on a new attempt to probe the mentalite of 19th century French life

Published July 31 1983

Crime, Protest, Community and Police in Nineteenth-Century Britain

David Jones

Published July 31 1982

Crime and Repression in the Auvergne and the Guyenne, 1720-1790

lain A. Cameron

Published April 30 1982

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.