This is my blog on the Campaign for Records website which was published in May 2022 Police archive; image by Angie Sutton-Vane My interest in police records began whilst working as the curator of a police force museum. The small and closed facility held a diverse collection including a large archive of general orders, station … Continue reading Police records, history and accountability
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The preservation of records and the writing of police histories
A number of histories of UK police forces begin right at the beginning of policing with rich information about parish constabularies, early reform and the establishment of the Metropolitan Police. For some, by the chronological ending of the book, information tends to get thinner or peter out. The reasons for this could be three-fold. First, … Continue reading The preservation of records and the writing of police histories
Foxes in hen houses – the theft of rare books from national libraries
A while back in June 2015 I attended a conference called The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril at the British Library convened by the library, the Institute of Art and Law, the Union Internationale des Avocates, the Commission for Art Recovery, Hunters Solicitors and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London. … Continue reading Foxes in hen houses – the theft of rare books from national libraries
Dr Angie Sutton-Vane 