Skip to main content

About this free course

Become an OU student

Share this free course

How police history can inform policing today
How police history can inform policing today

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol on the course to track your learning.

References

Go, J. (2022) ‘From crime fighting to counterinsurgency: the transformation of London’s Special Patrol Group in the 1970s’, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 33(4), pp. 654–72.

Harrison, B. (1965) ‘The Sunday Trading Riots of 1855’, Historical Journal, 8(2), pp. 219–45.

Jefferson, T. (1987) ‘Beyond paramilitarism’, British Journal of Criminology, 27, pp. 47–53.

St John, J. (2024) ‘Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968’, Contemporary British History, 38(2), pp. 270–98.

Poole, R. (2019) Peterloo. The English Uprising, Oxford.

Reiner, R. (2000) The Politics of the Police, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press.

Thompson, E.P. (1971)‘The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, 50, pp. XX–XX.

Vogler, R. (1991) Reading the Riot Act. The magistracy, the police and the army in civil disorder, Open University Press.

Waddington, D. (2007) Policing public order: theory and practice, Willan.