Tag: True Crime
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COFFEE WITH A CURATOR: Dr Claire Smith, Metropolitan Police Historic Collection, May 2020
May’s blog sees the start of a new series of interviews intended to give you an insight into the captivating work of curators around the world. For the first instalment, I was privileged to share a (virtual) coffee with Dr Clare Smith, Historic Collection Curator at the Heritage Centre dedicated to the Metropolitan Police Service…
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INTERVIEW WITH RETIRED BOW STREET POLICE STATION OFFICER, March 2020
Bow Street is one of London’s most famous thoroughfares — in addition to being the location of the Society’s fictional headquarters, of course. Its police station was as famous as its magistrates’ courts. The vast majority of police presence at the Bow Street station was removed in the second half of the twentieth century with…
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REVIEW: SCOTLAND YARD The Complete Series, May 2019
Nowadays we’re accustomed to seeing (at least) 30 minutes of adverts (aka commercials) for products and other movies when we go to the cinema. In the early to mid-twentieth century though cinema goers would be treated to a “B feature” in addition to the top billed film. They may have also seen a news reel…