Clive Emsley

Crime in 19th-Century Britain

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

The view that the police were handicapped in dealing with criminals. ‘Blind man’s buff’ (as played by the police), Punch, 1888.

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.

The French Police in the 19th Century

The framework for the police of nineteenth century France, argues Clive Emsley, emerged out of the reorganisation of the Revolution and the reforms of Napoleon.