"Early in 1971 Jonathan Aitkin stood in the dock of the Old Bailey accused of offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911...Although much of this book is a narrative account of an historical legal struggle, Officially Secret is more than a…
Contents: Part 1: Dealing with the mob 1. Modern mob violence 2. Control of civil and domestic disturbances 3. Police control of crowds 4. Chemical munitions for control of civil disturbances 5. Obscuring smoke for crowd and riot control 6. The…
"The military is supposed to stand aside from British society. Only when soldiers are called on to act `in the aid of the civil power', can they intervene. But Judge Anthony Babington shows in this book that from the earliest times to the present…
Contents: 1. Slogans or policies? 2. The organization of police work I: "fire brigade" policing 3. The organization of police work II: Local intelligence 4. The local politics od accountability 5. The police and the law 6. Reforming the law or…
Changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the wars. Contents : PART 1: ANTHROPOLOGY 1. Contstructing a British identity 2. American diversity PART 2: BIOLOGY 3. In search of a biology of race 4. The limit of traditional…
Chapters include: The Liverpool Irish community in 1848 Riotous Liverpool 1815-60 Labour unrest in Liverpool 1871-73 Protestant and Catholic riots in Edwardian Liverpool Liverpool Labour Party and Women Popular politics in the Chartist era
Preface The Power of the establishment 1. Britain as a colony 2. The case for constitutional premiership 3. The case for a constitional civil service 4. Civil liberties and the security services 5. The democratic control of science and…
The release of the Guildford four in October 1989, after fifteen years in Jail, was an admission of enormous failure on the part of the British judicial system. With the Court of Appeal's momentous decision to overturn the original convictions it…
