Tag: History
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COFFEE WITH AN HISTORIAN: Christine Wagg, The Peabody Trust, February 2022
In January, subscribers to the Gaslight Gazette were treated to the first read-through of part one of the brand-new Bow Street Society Casebook short story, The Case of the Scream in the Smog. They would’ve also read a very special thanks I gave to the Peabody Trust and its historian, Christine Wagg, prior to the story’s…
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WHERE DID “COPPER” COME FROM? September, 2019
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The 190th Anniversary of the Founding of the Metropolitan Police Force The 29th September 2019 will mark the 190th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel. It’s difficult for many to imagine a world in which there’s no police. Almost more difficult to imagine is a society so resistant to…