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Policing Drunkenness in Cumbria, 1856-1901 The Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary

Policing Drunkenness in Cumbria, 1856-1901 The Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary. Dr Guy Woolnough The police in Victorian England. Kirkby Stephen Pennine town in the county of Westmorland. Kirkby Stephen Population c.1500 The Temperance Movement

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Policing Drunkenness in Cumbria, 1856-1901 The Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary

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  1. Policing Drunkenness in Cumbria, 1856-1901The Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary Dr Guy Woolnough The police in Victorian England

  2. Kirkby Stephen Pennine town in the county of Westmorland

  3. Kirkby Stephen Population c.1500 The Temperance Movement Four Temperance Inns, one Temperance Hall, four Bands of Hope, one Rechabite ‘tent’, and an annual Temperance Demonstration Shepherd, M.E., 2003. From Hellgill to Bridge End : aspects of economic and social change in the Upper Eden Valley 1840-95.

  4. Methodism Kirkby Stephen Primitive Methodist Chapel, rebuilt 1902 Cautley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built 1865 1851 Religious census: Kirkby union attendance, 71% Clarke, D.F., 1983. An Isolated Holy Community: Methodism in the Upper Eden Valley, Westmorland. Burgess, J., 1980. A history of Cumbrian Methodism.

  5. All cases brought before Kirkby Stephen Petty Sessions, 1874-1900

  6. Offences brought to court by Kirkby Stephen Police, 1874-1900

  7. Police Discretion A drunk, summonsed after an incident at Grayrigg, in 1892 From the station Occurrence Book

  8. Persons charged with drunkenness offences, 1858-1892 From Judicial Statistics Expressed per 10000 of population

  9. Liverpool Kirkby Stephen Expressed per 10000 of population

  10. Expressed per 10000 of population

  11. Arrests and Summonses, Kirkby Stephen and Kirkby Lonsdale (1893-1900) Same size population, same county, same police force, same agriculture.

  12. Arrests and Summonses for Drink offences Kirkby Stephen and Kirkby Lonsdale (1893-1900)

  13. Arrests and Summonses, Kirkby Stephen and Kirkby Lonsdale (1893-1900)

  14. In both places, the police targeted vagrants. In Kirkby Lonsdale, tourism was important, with rich and respectable visitors coming from across the UK. Begging was the problem that concerned people in the town, and this is what vagrants were arrested for. In Kirkby Stephen, temperance was important, drunkenness was the problem that concerned people in the town, and this is what vagrants were arrested for. The police exercised their discretion and responded to local pressures, cultural or economic.

  15. Billington, L., 1988. Revivalism and Popular Religion. In: E.M. Sigsworth, ed, In search of Victorian values: aspects of nineteenth-century thought and society. Manchester Crockett, A., 2005. Rural-Urban Churchgoing in Victorian England. Rural History, 16(01), pp. 53. (Supply of chapels in rural areas was key to attnedance) historians have ignored temperance as a dead end but Victorians obsessed with alcohol. Dingle, A.E., 1980. Campaign for prohibition in Victorian England : The United Kingdom Alliance 1872-1895. Shiman, L.L., 1988. Crusade against drink in Victorian England Temperance and Methodism organised the social life of many workers Teetotalers working class men could be aggressive, not concerned for the conventions of respectability.

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