Books written by Roger Swift

  • Police Reform in Early Victorian York, 1835-1856
    Police Reform in Early Victorian York, 1835-1856

    ... have appointed the following Persons , namely ,DANIEL SMITH , WILLIAM - PRESTON , GEORGE BELLERBY , JOHN OLIVER , WILLIAM KYLE , GEORGE SCRUTON , GEORGE NALTON , CHARLES BROWN , SOLOMON LITTLEWOOD , To Actas Constables of the said ...

  • Behaving Badly
    Behaving Badly

    This inaugural lecture discusses the complex relationship between Irish migration to Britain in the nineteenth century and the incidence of crime in the British cities in which the migrants settled.

  • Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England: Cambridge, 1835–1856
    Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England: Cambridge, 1835–1856

    For further details of Mortlock's life from a familial perspective, see A. E. Clark-Kennedy, From Cambridge to Botany Bay: A Victorian Family Tragedy (John Bluff, Cambridge, 1982). John Mortlock was Clark-Kennedy's first cousin on his ...

  • Victorian Chester: Essays in Social History, 1830-1900
    Victorian Chester: Essays in Social History, 1830-1900

    The reality of Victorian Chester , for James , it would seem , was most vividly grasped by examining the ' tissue of images and pictures ' which present themselves to the observant American tourist on his walk around the city's walls .

  • The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939
    The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939

    ... the people are too heart - broken and miserable to think of buying fire arms'.71 As famine migration to the mainland increased , so fear of being overrun by hordes of fever - ridden , starving Irish spread throughout the country .

  • Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
    Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical

    Martin, G., The Cambridge Union and Ireland, 1815–1914 (Cambridge, 2000). Mason, F., The Book of Wolverhampton ... MacRaild, D.M., The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750–1939 (Basingstoke, 2011). Maccoby, S., English Radicalism, ...

  • The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension
    The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension

    Having assembled collections of essays on the national and regional dimension of the Irish in Britain in 1985 and of revisionist studies in 1989, Swift (Victorian studies, U. College, Chester)...

  • Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
    Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

    [ J Meagher, Inventing Irish America, 3. [ J Gans, 'Symbolic Ethnicity', 1—20. ... [ J Emmons, The Butte Irish, 13, 15, 63, 77, 83, 285, passim. ... Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool—Irish, 1800— 1939.

  • Gladstone Centenary Essays
    Gladstone Centenary Essays

    Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler (London, 1896). (Ed.), The Works of Joseph Butler, ... The Gladstonian Turn of Mind: Essays Presented to J. B. Conacher (Toronto, 1985). Biographical Studies of Gladstone Books Biagini, ...

  • The Irish in the Victorian City
    The Irish in the Victorian City

    The Victorian City, esp. chs. 10–15. 28. Lees. Exiles, p.63. 29. See particularly the work of S. Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century City (Cambridge, Mass., 1964); The Other Bostonians (Cambridge, ...

  • The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914: Perspectives and Sources
    The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914: Perspectives and Sources

    The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914: Perspectives and Sources

  • Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary History
    Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary History

    In 8 parts: Part 1: Migration; Part 2: Settlement; Part 3: Employment; Part 4: Social conditions; Part 5: Catholicism, Protestantism and Sectarianism; Part 6: Radical and Labou movement; Part 7: Nationalism; Part 8: Unionism.

  • Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
    Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

    This book was previously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.