Policing Victorian London Political Policing, Public Order and the London Metropolitan Police

'œPhillip Thurmond Smith studies the other side of the public order question by tackling the history of Peel's Metropolitan Police force (1830-60). Smith's work is not as scholarly or astute as the two previous contributions although he gleans much interesting material from his study of the Metropolitan Police Records and the Home Office Records. The discussion of the police surveillance of the Great Exhibition is particularly interesting. Smith is safest when discussing police policy, tactics, and history and less sure when generalizing about nineteenth-century society as a whole. His treatment of the Sunday Trading Riots of 1855, the Garibaldi Riots of 1865, and the Hyde Park Riots of 1866-7 is informative.'' The Year's Work in English StudiesSmith, Phillip T. is the author of 'Policing Victorian London Political Policing, Public Order and the London Metropolitan Police' with ISBN 9780313244377 and ISBN 0313244375.