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James Jacob Thomson and the Ottoman Connection | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. James Jacob Thomson and the Ottoman Connection. July 1, 2014. I’m off to Turkey tomorrow for a long-awaited vacation. Yes, I realize that no sane person heads to that part of the world in. But as it’s already 35oC with the humidex in Ontario, it’s really just a lateral move at this point. His talents were especially useful when the Home Office or police commissioners required correspondence translated; given the sensitive nature of police ...

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Scandal at Scotland Yard | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. Scandal at Scotland Yard. February 9, 2014. In an older post. This crisis highlighted corruption at the highest level. Once uncovered, it led to the reorganization of the Yard’s detectives into a more centralized investigative body called the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in 1878. The Trial of the Detectives at the Old Bailey. The Graphic, 17 November 1877. The trial of the forgers Harry Benson, William Kurr, Charles Bale, Freder...

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The Real PIs of Victorian London | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. The Real PIs of Victorian London. September 3, 2013. After a month’s hiatus from the blogosphere/Twitterverse I have returned to the land of the living with a little post about private investigators (or PIs). I came across private investigators during the early stages of my research. They were one of the groups who popped up among the (many) results of my keyword search for detectives in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. Such skills clearly ...

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The Birth of Detectives in the Met | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. The Birth of Detectives in the Met. July 15, 2013. As my previous post on European police. Suggested, many Britons equated centralized policing with government tyranny and espionage. To avoid such criticisms, when the Metropolitan Police was established in 1829 there was no detective branch. [1]. But one grisly murder in 1842 the last in a series of failed police investigations finally changed all that. The incident was a serious embarrass...

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Detection in England from Bow Street to the Met | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. Detection in England from Bow Street to the Met. July 23, 2013. Detectives have had a special niche in popular culture for many years. Beginning in the nineteenth century with the works of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and followed later in the century by Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Franchises, and more recently by the revived Sherlock. But where does this fascination with detection come from? July 23, 2013. Address never ma...

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Publications | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. 8216;Bobbies, Booze and Bagatelle: Policing Vice in Victorian London.’ In. True Crime Histories: Micro-Studies in Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700. Edited by David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday. (Forthcoming) Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England: Literary and Cultural Representations. Journal of British Studies. Vol54, No. 2 (April 2015): 545-546 doi:10.1017/jbr.2015.50. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Can&#8...

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Commissioner Scrooge: Cracking Down on Drunken Excess and Snowball Fights | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. Commissioner Scrooge: Cracking Down on Drunken Excess and Snowball Fights. December 11, 2013. Christmas is nigh upon us and in honour of the holidays I’ve decided to relate a few stories of (perceived) excess. I came across these incidents in the early stages of my research a source of many stifled giggles (well, let’s be honest, snorts) in the archives and now seems a good time to share them. MEPO 7/20, January 6 1859. Mayne was also a li...

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Worn Out: The Physical Price of Police Work | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. Worn Out: The Physical Price of Police Work. June 11, 2013. I’ve been too sick today to do any proper research, so thought I’d write about detectives who were forced to retire because of disease or infirmity. My illness will not, of course, lead to my retirement (one needs a job for that) but I thought it would be a fun subject for a blog post. Police Jacket (photo care of the Metropolitan Police Museum). Detectives had to provide their ow...

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European Police in the English Imagination | Victorian Detectives

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Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital. European Police in the English Imagination. May 22, 2013. Similarly, Select Committee reports in the first quarter of the century made clear that centralized policing and detective policing would be considered assaults on traditional British freedoms. This system of rooting out political dissent went much further than any nineteenth-century English government was comfortable with. These tactics reflect the vast political differences be...