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Clive Emsley came to The Open University's History Department in 1970 after research at Cambridge.

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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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Why do we celebrate Jack The Ripper?photos.com

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Paul Begg (Guest), Maggie Bird (Guest), Dr Peter Claus (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Barry Godfrey (Guest), Gareth Stedman-Jones (Guest)

10 November 2006

To what extent did Jack The Ripper mask more pressing fears of revolution in Victorian England? Michael Portillo investigates  Read more : Why do we celebrate Jack The Ripper?

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Emsley, Clive (2007). Crime, police and penal policy: European experiences 1750-1940. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Emsley, Clive and Shpayer-Makov, Haia eds. (2006). Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Emsley, Clive (2005). El ejercito, la policia y el mantenimiento del orden publico en Inglaterra (c.1750-1950). Politica y Sociedad, 42(3), pp. 15–29.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Filling in, adding up, moving on; Criminal Justice History in contemporary Britain. Crime, History and Societies, 9(1), pp. 117–138.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple or a diseased orchard? In: Srebnik, Amy Gilman and Levy, Rene eds. Crime and culture: an historical perspective. Advances in Criminology. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 85–104.

Emsley, Clive (2005). Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750. London, UK: Hambledon Press.

Lawrence, Paul (2004). Policing the poor in England and France, 1850-1900. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social control in Europe Volume 2: 1800-2000. Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 210–225.

O'Day, Rosemary (2004). Caring or controlling? The East End of London in the 1880s and 1890s. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social control in Europe: Volume 2, 1800-2000. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 149–166.

Pittaway, Mark (2004). Control and consent in Eastern Europe’s workers’ states, 1945-1989: some reflections on totalitarianism, social organization and social control. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social Control in Europe, Volume 2, 1800-2000. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 343–367.

Lawrence, Paul (2003). 'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men ...': Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939. In: Godfrey, Barry; Emsley, Clive and Dunstall, Graeme eds. Comparative Histories of Crime. Willan Publishing, pp. 125–144.

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Clive Emsley came to The Open University's History Department in 1970 after research at Cambridge. Since then he has had some time away from Milton Keynes as a visiting professor at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis), and at the universities of Calgary (Canada), Griffith (Australia) and Christchurch (New Zealand). In 2004 he was visiting research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was a co-founder and co-director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the university from 2003 until 2009 and President of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice for 12 years.

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