Chris A. Williams
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| Biography | <p><strong>Dr Chris A. Williams</strong><br /><br />(I'm not to be confused with the'A'-less Professor Chris Williams at Cardiff University). I'm a Senior Lecturer in History affiliated to the<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/policing/index.shtml"><u>Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice</u></a>; and the<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/researchcentres/herc/">Harm and Evidence Reseach Collective</a>. I have an MA in Urban History from the University of Leicester, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield, with the thesis topic'Police and Crime in Sheffield, 1818-1873'.</p><p>I am a member of the<u><a href="http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">Social History Society</a>.</u></p><h2>Broadcasting:</h2><p>Initiator of the BBC Radio 4 series'The Things We Forgot To Remember'</p><p>Academic consultant to:</p><ul><li>'The Things We Forgot To Remember' (series 1-3)</li><li>'Wartime Farm'</li><li>'Andrew Marr's History of the World'</li><li>'Full Steam Ahead'</li></ul> |
| Description | <p><strong>Dr Chris A. Williams</strong><br /><br />(I'm not to be confused with the'A'-less Professor Chris Williams at Cardiff University). I'm a Senior Lecturer in History affiliated to the<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/policing/index.shtml"><u>Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice</u></a>; and the<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/researchcentres/herc/">Harm and Evidence Reseach Collective</a>. I have an MA in Urban History from the University of Leicester, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield, with the thesis topic'Police and Crime in Sheffield, 1818-1873'.</p><p>I am a member of the<u><a href="http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">Social History Society</a>.</u></p><h2>Broadcasting:</h2><p>Initiator of the BBC Radio 4 series'The Things We Forgot To Remember'</p><p>Academic consultant to:</p><ul><li>'The Things We Forgot To Remember' (series 1-3)</li><li>'Wartime Farm'</li><li>'Andrew Marr's History of the World'</li><li>'Full Steam Ahead'</li></ul> |
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| Research overview | <ul><li>All aspects of the history of crime and policing since about 1750, especially concerning British and British colonial police.</li><li>The preservation of the records of British police forces.</li><li>The public history of criminal justice in the UK and beyond.</li><li>The relationship between history and memory.</li><li>The globalisation of policing practice.</li><li>The history of the control room (<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/cw-online-resources.shtml"><u>lecture here</u></a>).</li><li>Public history, particularly as it relates to methods of communicating historical knowledge via broadcasting.</li></ul><h2>Research students</h2><p>I am an experienced supervisor and examiner of research projects at Masters and Doctoral level, and currently willing to consider taking on new students.</p><p>I have successfully supervised doctoral students working on the following topics at the OU:</p><ul><li>'British Government Responses to Terrorism, 1865-1975'</li><li>'County Police Chief Constables, 1857-1914'</li><li>'The Public History of the UK Criminal Justice System'</li><li>'Narrative verdicts and deaths after police contact, 2001-2011'</li><li>'From Constables to Constabulary: Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century systems of policing in Hertfordshire'</li><li>'Popular Representations of Crime: the'Illustrated Police News', 1867-1938'</li><li>'Behind the front line: Non-confrontational responses to youth crime from the Manchester and Salford city police forces 1933-1963'</li></ul><p>I am currently supervising doctoral students working on the following topics at the OU:</p><ul><li>'The material culture of police archives'<br /> </li></ul><h2>Publications:</h2><h3>Books</h3><p><em>Police control systems in Britain, 1775-1975: From parish constable to national computer</em>Manchester University Press, 2014.</p><p><em>Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century</em>(Ashgate: Abingdon: 2010) [editor] Vol.3 of<em>History of Policing.</em></p><p>(with B. Godfrey and P. Lawrence)<em>History and Crime</em>(Sage: London, 2007).</p><p><em>Giving the Past a Future: Preserving the Heritage of the UK's Criminal Justice System</em>(Francis Boutle: London, 2004) [edited collection].</p><p> </p><h3>Articles and chapters</h3><p> </p><p><a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/50467/" style="color: rgb(52, 74, 129); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><xhtml>Risk on the Roads: Police, Motor Traffic and the Management of Space, c. 1900–50.</xhtml></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In: Crook, Tom and Esbester, Mike eds. </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000.</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 195–219.</span></p><p>'Police Governance - Community, Policing, and Justice in the modern UK' in<em>Taiwan in Comparative Perspective</em>, Vol. 3, 2010, pp. 50-65 [<a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/asiaResearchCentre/countries/taiwan/TaiwanProgramme/Journal/volume2.aspx" rel="nofollow" title="'Police Governance - Community, Policing, and Justice in the modern UK'"><u>Read this online</u></a>]</p><p>'British Policing in the Twentieth Century', introduction to C.A.Williams (ed)<em>Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century</em>(Ashgate: Aldershot: 2010) [978-0-7546-2954-2] Vol.3 of<em>History of Policing</em>.</p><p>'Policing the Populace: The Road to Professionalisation' in David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday (eds)<em>Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000</em>(Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2010). [978-0-230-22469-8] pp. 160-179.</p><p>'What's a'back office'<em>for</em>? The case of policing'<em>History and Policy</em>, June 2010 [<a href="http://www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion/opinion_49.html" rel="nofollow" title="What's a 'back office' for? ..."><u>Read this online</u></a>]</p><p> 'Labelling and Tracking the Criminal in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales: The Relationship between Governmental and Creating Official Numbers' in Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, and Svein Hammer (eds)<em>The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society</em>(Routledge: Abingdon, '2011'), [978-0-415-87370-3] pp. 157-171.</p><p>'Police filming English streets in 1935: the limits of mediated identification'<em>Surveillance and Society</em>6.1 (2009) 3-9.<br />[<a href="http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/mediated/mediated" rel="nofollow" title="Police filming English streets in 1935 ..."><u>Read this online</u></a>]</p><p>'Ideologies, structures, and contingencies: writing the history of British criminal justice since 1975'<em>Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique</em>, 14.4 (2008) 59 - 84.</p><p>'Constables for hire: the history of private'public' policing in the UK',<em>Policing and Society</em>, 18.2, (2008) 190— 205.</p><p>'How it actually was'? A historian responds to'On Historical Contextualisation'<em>Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective</em>Vol. 1, No 2, (2007)<br />[<a href="http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/journal/issue%201.2/Debate%20Forum.pdf" rel="nofollow" title="'How it actually was'? ..."><u>Read this as a PDF</u></a>]</p><p>(with Georgina Sinclair)‘Home and Away'; the Cross Fertilisation between‘Colonial' and‘British' Policing, 1921-1985'<em>Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History</em>, 35.2 (2007) 221 - 238.</p><p>'Rotten boroughs? How the towns of England and Wales lost their police forces in 1964.' in J. Moore and J.B. Smith (eds)<em>Urban Corruption</em>(Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007).</p><p><em>'I am not on the beat now, the New Police have come there.'– Using the Old Bailey Online to study the changing enforcers of the law in London, 1730-1834.</em>Internet symposium on the Old Bailey database - February 12, 2006.<br />[<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/obp-policing.htm" title="'I am not on the beat now, the New Police have come there.'..."><u>Read this online</u></a>]</p><p>'Police and the Law' in S. Berger (ed.)<em>Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth Century Europe</em>(Oxford, Blackwell, 2006).</p><p>(with Clive Emsley)'Beware of the Leopard?: Police archives in Great Britain' in M. Proctor (ed.)<em>Political Pressure and the Archival Record</em>(Chicago, Society of American Archivists, 2006).</p><p>'The Sheffield Democrats' critique of criminal justice in the 1850s' in R. Colls and R. Rodger (eds)<em>Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000</em>(Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004).</p><p>'Catégorisation et stigmatisation policièresà Sheffield au milieu du XIXe siècle'<em>Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine</em>50.1 (2003) 104– 125. [Read an English version of this online]</p><p>'Britain's police forces: forever removed from democratic control?' in<em>History and Policy</em>, Dec 1st, 2003. [<a href="http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-16.html" rel="nofollow"><u>http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-16.html</u></a>]</p><p>'Police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV in the 1960s' in M. Gill (ed.)<em>CCTV in Perspective</em>(Perpetuity Press, Leicester, 2003).</p><p>'Police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV in the 1960s' in<em>Crime Prevention and Community Safety</em>5.3 (2003) 27-38.</p><p>'Counting crimes or counting people: some implications of mid-nineteenth century British police returns' in<em>Crime, Histoire& Sociétés/Crime, History& Societies</em>. 4.2 (2000), 77-93.</p><p>'Expediency, authority and duplicity: reforming Sheffield's police 1832 - 1840' in R. Trainor and R. Morris (eds) U<em>rban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750</em>. (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2000), pp. 115-127</p><p>Follow this link for<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/cw-online-resources.shtml"><u>podcasts and research papers in progress</u></a>.</p> |
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