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Article: Conquering the British Ballarat: the policing of Victorian Middlesbrough.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Introduction
The creation of a policed society was one of the major developments of the nineteenth century. As recent studies have shown, there was considerable variation from town to town and, while the process was never unproblematic, there were greater difficulties to be overcome in the growing industrial and commercial centres--Merthyr Tydfil and Wolverhampton as much as Manchester and Liverpool--than in more tranquil market centres, such as Exeter and York. (1) Exceptionally, new communities came into being, which necessitated the creation of a system of policing where none had existed before. Middlesbrough, with its dramatic growth in the early and ...