Dear all,
On the 20th October the Eurpoean Centre for the Study of Policing at the OU will be running a one day seminar entitled 'Policing, Crime and Space in the 19th and 20th Centuries'. Details of the programme are below. If any of you are interested in attending, please contact Lynda White (History Dept) [log in to unmask] by the 15th October. It costs £10 to attend and lunch/coffee are included.
Many thanks
Kirstie
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Policing, crime and space in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Friday, 20th October 2006
Hosted by The European Centre for the Study of Policing
Central Meeting Rooms, OU, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Each paper will last 40-45 minutes, and will be followed by a period of discussion
Programme
10.30 Meet for Coffee
11.00 The History of the Police Control Room, 1906-1940
Chris Williams (Open University)
12.00 Ordering the Line: The Railway Police at Work c.1830-1860
Mike Esbester (University of York)
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Transport Technology and Crime: the Era of the Horse, c.1600-1900
Colin Chant, The Open University
3.00 Policing Nineteenth-Century Boroughs
Maureen Scollan, Open University
4.00 Close
Abstracts
The History of the Police Control Room, 1906-1940
This paper looks at the antecedents of real-time control of police officers through wireless from a central point, and examines the extent to which it derived from railway practice via military use. It also attempts to explore a few of the concepts necessary in for a critical history of the control room.
Ordering the Line: The Railway Police at Work c.1830-1860
This paper explores how the early British railway companies responded to the demands of the new system of transport by introducing private police forces. The paper considers the changing duties of the railway police, discussed broadly in terms of public and private roles. It also argues that the symbol of the metropolis - the policeman - sought to guard the conceptual space of the railway from exterior disorder.
Transport Technology and Crime: the Era of the Horse, c.1600-1900
This paper is a case-study in the relations between technology, crime and policing. It considers on one hand the opportunities for crime and its detection, and limits upon them, associated with a particular cluster of technologies; and on the other, the ways in which those technologies and their nefarious uses are socially shaped. The transport technologies dealt with in the paper range from stage coaches to the various urban forms, including Hansom cabs, omnibuses and trams.
Policing 19th Century Boroughs
The organisational structure of boroughs before 1835 was complex, and corruption and abuse of corporate powers were commonplace. This paper compares the ways in which four Essex boroughs implemented the policing clauses of the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act, and examines the subsequent development of those forces.
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