Review
This book has been sorely needed for some time.. . A respected and serious author of police history, Stephen Wade has taken on a difficult subject and produced a guide up to his usual standard of writing and attention to detail. . . This book will become an invaluable aid to anyone researching police history including ancestor hunting.
--Police History Society Newsletter June 2009
Product Description
Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officer's career may be traced and understood from this research. He also explains the range of secondary sources open to the family or local historian, many of which offer a broader account of the social and cultural history of the British police forces.