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New Histories of British Policing - The New Police in Nineteenth-Century England: Crime, Conflict and Control. By David Taylor. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xi+180. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). - Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720–1830. By Elaine A. Reynolds. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. x+235. $49.50 (cloth). - Policing Provincial England, 1829–1856: The Politics of Reform. By David Philips and Robert Storch. London: Leicester University Press, 1999. Pp. x+342. $75.00 (cloth). - The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800–1865. By Brian Griffin. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1997. Pp. xi+167. $42.50 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Simon Devereaux
Simon Devereaux*
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University of Queensland
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 146 - 151
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References

1 See, e.g., Storch, Robert, “The Plague of Blue Locusts: Police Reform and Popular Resistance in Northern England, 1840–57,” International Review of Social History 20 (1975): 61–90Google Scholar, and “The Policeman as Domestic Missionary: Urban Discipline and Popular Culture in Northern England, 1850–1880,” Journal of Social History 9 (1975–1976): 481–509Google Scholar.