Seminars hosted by ICHCPJ since 2008

2019

17 May 2019: Prisons, Courts and Police Stations in Historical Perspective

Clive Emsley (Open University) 'Reinventing Bow Street'

Yvonne Jewkes (University of Bath) 'The modern architecture of incarceration: from spectacular statement of sovereign power to (an) aesthetic symbol of public indifference'

Zoe Alker (Liverpool University) 'Streets of crime: criminal life courses, carceral geographies and immersive environments'

Linda Mulcahy (University of Oxford) 'The democratic courthouse'

Rhiannon Pickin (Leeds Beckett University) '"He only stole a loaf of bread!" Popular narratives of historical British courtrooms'

Andrew Millie (Edge Hill University) 'Visible policing: The symbolic power of police stations'

Goncalo Goncalves (University of Rio) 'Police stations and the visibility of state authority in Portugal, c.1870-1940'

2018

20 April 2018:

Haia Shpayer-Makov (University of Haifa) ‘Close Encounters of an Asymmetrical Kind: Police and Enemy Aliens During the First World War in Britain’

Clive Emsley (Open University) ‘Bobbies and Mafiosi: When ‘the best police in the world’ went to war’

Mark Roodhouse (York University) ‘Britain’s Bootleggers: Black Markets and Organised Crime in Austerity Britain’

Bruce Houlder C.B. Q.C. D.L. (Former Director of Service Prosecutions) ‘Is Service Justice out of step – Glancing back from the front?’

2017

10 November 2017: Policing and Technology

Alison Adam (Sheffield Hallam University) 'Science in the service of detection: the British 'scientific aids' movement of the 1930s'

Ian Burney (University of Manchester) 'Spatters and Lies: Technologies of Truth in the Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-1966'

Chris Williams (Open University) 'The Home Office, Information and Communications, 1950-1975'

Paul Lawrence (Open University) 'Identification, Technology and the British Police: The Curious Case of the Adoption of Photo-FIT'

A response to the papers was given by Graham Pike (Open University)

24 March 2017: New Perspectives on Crime and Policing

Donald Fyson (Laval University, Canada) 'The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759-1872'

Maryse Tennant (Canterbury Christ Church) 'The Police that Never Was: Peel, Melbourne and the Cheshire Constabulary (1839-1857)

Chris Fevre (Dundee University) 'The origins of black community resistance to policing in London, 1945-1959'

2016

11 March 2016: New Perspectives on Crime and Policing

Zoe Alker (Liverpool) 'Digital Panopticon: Visualising Crime and Punishment 1780-1925'

David Smale ‘Early Chief Constables in Scotland: Policing the City and the County' 

Simon Peplow (Exeter) ‘Bargaining by Riot? Race, Policing, and Public Inquiries during the 1980-81 distrubances in England'

David Baker (Coventry) 'Coroners and Justice: Continuity and Change in Cases of Death after Police Contact'

2015

4 December 2015: New Perspectives on Crime and Policing

Kenneth Duggan (KCL) ‘Self-Policing with Accountability in Pre-Modern England’

Paul Lawrence (Open University) ‘SUS! Pre-Emptive Policing and the Vagrancy Act of 1824’

Kallum Dhillon (UCL) ‘Crime in the Archive: Researching the Geography of Criminal Activity in Edwardian London’

Goncalo Gonçalves (Lisbon University Institute) ‘Police Reform and Political Change in Interwar Portugal’

6 February 2015: Policing Morals

Guy Woolnough (Keele) 'Policing Morals in Victorian Cumbria: Plebeian Respectability'

Henry Yeomans (Leeds) 'Tax, Morals and Behavioural Regulation: The Case of Alcohol Excise Duties'

Julia Laite (Birkbeck) 'The Moral Regulation of Migration: The Control of Trafficking and Smuggling in the Early Twentieth Century'

Simon Jenkins (Cardiff) 'Space/Place and the Policing of Prostitution in Cardiff, 1920-1960'

2014

2 May 2014: War, Police and Crime

Terry Patton (Open University) 'Royal Commissions, Corporal Punishment and the Nineteenth-Century Court Martial'

Rebecca Crites (University of Warwick) ' "Brutes, whores and shell-shocked wretches": the impact of the First World War upon news media representations of the wife beater in Britain, 1914-1929'

Clive Emsley (Open University) 'Flashman, Orwell and the Gun-Slinging Bobby'

Georgina Sinclair (Open University) 'Insider/ Outsider Policing: the Role of MOD POlice under Operation Herrick, Afghanistan 2006-2014'

14 January 2014: Criminal Justice History

Kate O’Donnell (Griffith University) ‘Hybrid High Policing: ACPO and the blurring of public and private policing'

Robert M Morris ‘Towards a history of covert policing’

Ben Taylor (King’s College London) 'The Battle for Information: The emergence of police science in the postwar Home Office'

Kevin Rigg (Teesside University) ‘The Capacity of a Constable to Express Agency and Individuality in a Post-war County Borough Police Force’

2013

12 July 2013: Criminal Justice Systems in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Bob Love (University of Leicester) 'Somerset before the police - policing the county 1830 - 1856'

Elaine Saunders (Open University) 'Policing a rural county: eighteenth-century systems of policing in Hertfordshire'

Francis Boorman (University of London) 'The spatiality of policing, crime and disorder in Chancery Lane, c.1760-1815'

Dave Churchill (University of Leicester) 'The police and the public in Leeds, 1850-1900: the contexts and content of popular animosity'

2012

12 July 2012: Work in Progress Seminar

Georgina Sinclair (Open University) and Melissa Bull (Griffith University/ CEPS) ‘Keeping the peace at home: the exchange of capacity in international and local policing forums’

John Moore (University of the West of England) ‘An unwelcome colonial penal experiment: How the trial of Alexander Maconochie’s “Mark System” on Norfolk Island penal settlement between 1840 and 1844 was viewed from New South Wales’

Marion Pluskota (University of Leicester) ‘Researching the criminal corpse in eighteenth-century France’

Matt Neale (University of Leicester/ IHR) ‘Geographies of crime and policing in eighteenth-century Bristol’

23 March 2012: Military Justice

This themed seminar explored the links between criminal justice history and military history.

Terry Patton (Open University) ‘Corporal Punishment in the Royal Navy, 1784-1812’

Nick Hiley (University of Kent) ‘”The Fellowship of the Four Winds”: British Conscientious Objectors on the run during the First World War’

Barry Sheehan (Open University) ‘Replacing the Civilian Courts: Martial Law and the British Army in Ireland, 1919-1921’

Clive Emsley (Open University) ‘”Why ‘Crucify’ Tommy?” Punishment and the British Army during the First World War’

2011

28 November 2011: 'Work in Progress' Seminar

David Lemmings (University of Adelaide), 'Henry Fielding, moralist, justice and journalist: narratives of panic, authority and emotion in English newspaper crime and justice reportage, 1748-52'

13 May 2011: 'Work in Progress' at ICHPCJ

Simon Devereaux (University of Victoria, BC), 'Hanging and Pardon at the Old Bailey, 1714-1837: A broad statistical analysis'

Andrea McKenzie (University of Victoria, BC), 'Biting the Biter: Sex, scatology and satiric inversion in Augustan Highwayman "Lives"'

Neil Pye (University of Huddersfield), 'Chartism and the development of Policing in the West Riding, c.1838-1848'

Sascha Auerbach (University of Northern British Columbia/ King's College London), ' "Handymen of the Courts": The Advent of Probation and the Role of Missionaries in the London Police Courts, 1876-1918'

18 February 2011: Criminal Book History

This themed seminar explored the links between histories of crime and the history of print in the nineteenth century. Crime and its punishment has long been a topic which has attracted readers and filled the coffers of publishers. However, from the turn of the nineteenth century, developments in printing technology, the emergence of cheap publications and rising literacy levels meant that interactions between crime and print culture flourished. The four papers at this seminar explored the ways in which crime shaped forms of writing, publishing, print distribution and reading.

Kirsty Reid (University of Bristol) ‘Writing the Voyage: Convict ship newspapers and the journey to Australia’

Alice Smalley (Open University) ‘Illustrating Crime: Visual representations of crime in the late nineteenth century newspaper’

Rosalind Crone (Open University) ‘”The prison and myself are becoming quite a show”: Elizabeth Fry’s prison project revisited’

2010

12 November 2010: 'Work in Progress' at ICHPCJ

Eloise Moss (University of Oxford) , ‘"The Burglar's Busy Period": Burglary Insurance, Fear of Crime and Contractual Nit-picking in Interwar Britain'

Songtao Yang (Henan University, China, British Academy Visiting Scholar at the OU), ‘Local policing in China during the eighteenth century'

Guy Woolnough (University of Keele), ‘Practical Policing at Brough Hill Fair: how the Cumbrian Police identified and dealt with problems at the fair'

21 July 2010: 'Work in Progress' at ICHPCJ

David Churchill (Open University), ‘Enter Policeman, Exit Victim: the historiography of policing and criminal justice in nineteenth-century England’

Rachael Griffin (University of Western Ontario), ‘Early Victorian Detectives: The Detective Department of the Metropolitan Police, 1842-1878’

Quentin Deluermoz (Université Paris 13 Nord, ICHPCJ visiting fellow), ‘Uniformed police in Big Cities : circulation, connexion and comparison in the 19th century’

Chris Williams (Open University), ‘The Met and Information Technology, 1829-1939’

26 February 2010: Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Interwar Britain

John Carter Wood (Open University), The 'Third Degree': The cultural history of an American phrase in early twentieth-century Britain

Huw Clayton (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Bailing Out the Police: The Cases of Richard Sheppard and Bell Murray Compared

Janet Clark (Open University) Policemen, Protesters and Libertarians: Politics and the Public Order Act 1936

Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan University), ‘“Constable Dances with Instructress”: The Press, the Police and the Queen of Nightclubs in Inter-War London

2009

4 December 2009: Homicide: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge), Killing Kings: Patterns of Regicide in Europe, 600 -1800 AD

Peter King (Open University), Space, Crime & Time. The Geography of Homicide in Scotland 1805-14 and 1836-56

Fiona Brookman (University of Glamorgan), Homicide: Contemporary Issues & Problems

Louise Westmarland (Open University), Snitches get Stitches: The Problem of Solving Homicide in Washington DC

Drew Grey (University of Northampton), The Whitechapel Murders in Historical Context

27 February 2009: History of Crime: Numbers and Theories

Special Guest: Frederic Vesentini

Speakers: Peter King (The Open University) and Paul Lawrence (The Open University)