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An Outsider Inside No. 10
An Outsider Inside No.10 : Protecting the Prime Ministers, 1974-79
Former Special Branch officer John Warwicker gives the inside story of the six years he spent in charge of security at 10 Downing Street, tracking one o...
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Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
A fascinating slice of 1950s life Pamela Rhodes, tells her story of life as a policewoman in Bobby on the Beat. When Pam joined in the 1950s the force's female r...
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been ...
Crime, Policing And Punishment In England 1660-1914
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England , 1660 - 1914
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It ...
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Fortune's Spear
Fortune's Spear : The Story of the Blue-blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s
Gerard Lee Bevan was the model of an Edwardian swell - arrogant, smooth, well-connected and highly cultured. He m...
John Christie of Rillington Place
John Christie of Rillington Place : Biography of a Serial Killer
Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial se...
Murders Of The Black Museum : The Dark Secrets Behnd a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England
Murders Of The Black Museum : The Dark Secrets Behnd a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses a unique collection of exhibits, a...
Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad
Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad
When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity and criminal opportunity. Thieves broke i...
Scourge Of Soho
Scourge of Soho : The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM
Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all time. Born into grinding pove...
Special Branch
Special Branch : A History 1883-2006
Initially tasked with combatting the threat of Irish republican terrorists in the reign of Queen Victoria, the Metropolitan Police Special Branch went on to play a major role in the ...
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
"Square Mile Bobbies" is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed e...
The Great War, Memory And Ritual
The Great War, Memory and Ritual : Commemoration in the City & East London 1916-39
The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned 1920s and 1930s is her...
Undercover : The Truse Story of Britain's Secret Police
Undercover : The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
"Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly ex...
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
This title charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political acitivism expressed in street fighting and ...