Policing the Home Front 1914-1918: The control of the British population at war
The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of...
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The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the police as they saw themselves through the pages of their best-known journal, The Police Review and Parade Gossip, in addition to a wide range of other published, archival and private sources.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781315122922 (1315122928)
Publish date: 2018-12-03
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Mary Fraser about her account of the British police forces in the First World War. Enjoy!
When Britain went to war in 1914, policemen throughout Great Britain confronted a range of new challenges. With the onset of the war the government turned to the police as agents of wartime authority and assigned to them an ever-increasing number of new duties that reflected the expanding power of t...
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