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Chris A. Williams is a lecturer in the History Department of The Open University.

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World War One: A Timewatch podcast Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University), John Farren (Guest), Paul Reed (Guest), Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

20 October 2008

Does the end make a good starting point for understanding the First World War?  Read more : World War One: A Timewatch podcast

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By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

14 January 2008

The forgotten parts of the story of Trafalgar could fill the fourth plinth in the square - and then some...  Read more : Squaring Trafalgar

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The legacy of Empire: The Bengal FamineCreative Commons Image xeeliz under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

07 January 2008

Does the Bengal Famine shape the way Indians view the British?  Read more : The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine

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Rewriting history - the failings of a common memoryCreative Commons Image riacale under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

31 December 2007

What we think of history is skewed by what our grandparents, and theirs, thought was important.  Read more : Rewriting history - the failings of a common memory

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What if...: Changing the course of historyCreative Commons Image cheesy42 under CC-BY licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

21 December 2007

 A spell of pondering what might have been lead to The Things We Forgot To Remember  Read more : What if...: Changing the course of history

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The Things We Forgot To Remember: Podcast  Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Paul Lawrence (The Open University), Dr Annika Mombauer (The Open University), Dr Donna Loftus (The Open University)

19 December 2007

The history behind the history: Our podcasts take you deeper into The Things We Forgot To Remember.  Read more : The Things We Forgot To Remember: Podcast

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One person's memory as history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Lost In Anywhere under CC-BY-NC licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University)

18 November 2006

It's said one person can change history. It's certainly true that just one person can change how things are remembered.   Read more : One person's memory as history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Families re-writing history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Valerie Reneé under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University)

17 November 2006

Amongst the other things they hand down to you, your ancestors are shaping your view of the past.  Read more : Families re-writing history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Fluid history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Peter Rosjberg under CC-BY-ND licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University)

16 November 2006

The past is things that have happened; how is it that the present can shape how we recall them?  Read more : Fluid history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Bridging The Memory GapBBC

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Esther MacCullum-Stewart (Guest)

13 May 2005

Inspired by The Things We Forgot To Remember, Chris Williams and Esther McCallum-Stewart explore the gap between what non-specialists think are historical facts, and what...  Read more : Bridging The Memory Gap

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Williams, Chris A. (2013). Directing Britain's police, 1780-1980: from parish constable to the national computer. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming).

Williams, Chris A. ed. (2011). Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century. The History of Policing, 3. Farnham: Ashgate.

Williams, Chris A. (2011). Police governance – community, policing, and justice in the modern UK. Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, 3 pp. 50–65.

Williams, Chris (2010). Policing the Populace: The road to professionalisation. In: Nash, David and KIlday, Anne-Marie eds. Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 160–179.

Williams, Chris A. (2010). Labelling and tracking the criminal in mid-nineteenth century England and Wales: The relationship between governmental and creating official numbers. In: Sætnan, Ann Rudinow; Lomell, Heidi Mork and Hammer, Svein eds. The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 157–171.

Williams, Chris A.; Patterson, James and Taylor, James (2009). Police filming English streets in 1935: the limits of mediated identification. Surveillance and Society, 6(1), pp. 3–9.

Williams, Chris A. (2008). Ideologies, structures and contingencies: writing the history of British criminal justice since 1975. Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique, 14(4), pp. 59–84.

Williams, Chris A. (2008). Constables for hire: the history of private 'public' policing in the UK. Policing and Society, 18(2), pp. 190–205.

Lawrence, Paul; Williams, Chris and Godfrey, Barry (2008). History and Crime. Key Approaches to Criminology. London: Sage.

Sinclair, Georgina and Williams, Chris (2007). 'Home and Away': The Cross-Fertilisation between 'Colonial' and 'British' Policing, 1921-85. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35(2), pp. 221–238.

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Chris A. Williams is a lecturer in the History Department of The Open University. He researches on British policing, and has edited Giving the Past a Future: preserving the heritage of the UK's criminal justice system (Francis Boutle, 2004). He chairs the course team for the OU course Total War and Social Change: Europe 1914-1955.

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