Cambridgeshire

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 Header image, Group of 19th Century Borough Police

 

 


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Links and thanks

Links

Cambridgeshire Police History, Ken Mason's site

Police History Society

Cambridgeshire Police Museum group on Facebook

OU Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice

Photographers in Cambridgeshire 1840-2000

The Prison Website by Peter Higginbotham: a national site which includes excellent material on Cambridgeshire prisons

Events leading up to the establishment of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary are set out in great detail by Peggy Watts in her excellent book "The Formation of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary 150 Years Ago", published in 2001 and now sadly out of print. But the good news is, thanks to permission from Peggy's family, you can download a .pdf version of Peggy's book free of charge from this link - a 16.5MB .pdf.

For those interested in Policing Huntingdonshire - there is an excellent article: "The Huntingdonshire Constabulary before 1857" by Joanna Brown, in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol 65(2), 1973-4, pp. 102-111. This is available free online with this link: https://doi.org/10.5284/1073046

Thanks

Grateful thanks to the following who have helped with this site:

  • Mike Petty
  • Chris Jakes
  • Mary Burgess
  • Lorna Delanoy
  • Ken Mason
  • Bill Watts
  • Pete Norman
 

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