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

by Clive Emsley

Book Overview

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 observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view of his efforts, the blue-helmeted, unarmed policeman remains an icon of Britishness, and a symbol of the relatively peaceful nature of our social evolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849161976
• ISBN13: 9781849161978
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Quercus Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"