Studying Social History and Citizenship by pupils and young people from Police Archives

The Police Archives project is led by the Open UniversityExternal website - Link opens in a new window and aims to make online material available from the Police material held by the university. Two teaching packages for schools are being prepared, the first concentrates on social history as seen through the eyes of Second World War serving officers, using material from the Eric St Johnston papers and Metropolitan Police deposits. The second will focus on issues of citizenship using material from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) deposit. Both packages will include visual material from the Police Archive and The Metropolitan Police Historical Collection.

The project will also provide increased opportunities for learning about our heritage and will enable this material to be made available to a much wider audience through an on-line catalogue.

For more information about this project please email: Terry WaterfieldMailto.

A photograph of the Police checking the speed of motorists with stop watches, 1910.
Speed traps to catch speeding motorists are probably considered a relatively modern phenomena. However, as early as 1910 the Police were checking the speed of motorists.