Tracing Your Police Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

Tracing Your Police Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
ISBN-10
1781596158
ISBN-13
9781781596159
Category
Reference
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2009-04-21
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Author
Stephen Wade

Description

Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officers career may be traced and understood from this research. He also explains the range of secondary sources open to the family or local historian, many of which offer a broader account of the social and cultural history of the British police forces.

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