Geography and environment (Sources)
Key Reading
- Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, chapter 5
Primary Sources
- Anonymous, Confessions of a Poacher (1890)
- Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
- Henry Fielding, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (there should also be a digital edition on ECCO)
- Thomas Plint, Crime in England, especially pp 80-131
- National Archives Collections on Captain Swing (see also local newspapers)
- National Archives Collections on Luddism (see also local newspapers) and Luddite Link