Criminal Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Criminal Records in England and Wales

Two years ago Hawkings published Railway Ancestors: A Guide to the Staff Records of the Railway Companies of England and Wales 1822‐1947 (RR 95/513) which not only examined at some length the various types of relevant records involved, but also the 988 separate railway companies which coalesced in the Big Four in the 1920s, and eventually into British Railways under the postwar Labour Government. That work was awarded the prize for the best generalist reference work reviewed in 1995 by Reference Reviews. In this softcover edition of a book first published in 1992, for railwaymen read criminals, and for the...