The English Police A Political and Social History

Introduction

1. Policing before the police
2. The coming of the police
3. A police for Victorian England
4. Policing in Victorian England
5. Professionalisation, politics and public order
6. War, mutiny and peace
7. Policing mid-twentieth century England
8. Local bobby or state lackey?
9. A life in the force
10. The policeman as a worker
Conclusion: Constabulary, Gendarmerie and Haute Police

Appendices

Bibliographical note

Index