The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present by Clive Emsley, Clive Emsley
The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present

Clive Emsley, Clive Emsley

The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present

Clive Emsley, Clive Emsley

336 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction crime history dark informative medium-paced
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The Victorians called him "Bobby" after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as "the best police in the world." If 21st- century ...

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