Useful Resources

A detailed report of the George Fursey trial can be found in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey at http://www.Oldbaileyonline.org.

A summary of the General Strike of 1926 can be found on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/generalstrikerev1.shtml.

A report of the Epsom riot, which appeared in the Epsom Advertiser, 4 July 1919, can be found at http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/Sgt_Green_Riot_2.pdf.

References

S.M. Cullen, 'Political Violence: The Case of the British Union of Fascists', Journal of Contemporary History, 28, 2 (1993), pp. 245-67.

V.A.C. Gatrell, 'Crime, Authority and the Policeman-State', in F.M.L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, Vol. 3: Social Agencies and Institutions (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 243-310.

M.J.D. Roberts, 'Public and Private in Early Nineteenth-Century London: The Vagrant Act of 1822 and its Enforcement', Social History, 13, 3 (1988), pp. 273-94.

J. Stevenson, 'The BUF, the Metropolitan Police and Public Order', in K. Lunn and R.C. Thurlow (eds), British Fascism: Essay on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain (1980), pp. 125-49.

The Times.

G. Thurston, The Clerkenwell Riot: The Killing of Constable Culley (1967).

 

Cartoon from Punch of a policeman on traffic duty "Mother, what did policemen do when there weren't any motors?"