Signing of the Treaty of London by France, England ... There were numerous forces at work in England starting in the 1600s and going into the 1700s. Including the commons, lords and royal family. A ...

This changed in the 19th century, when Britain’s first professional and full-time police force was established in London. The Bow Street Runners were a group of volunteers that patrolled London ...

By the mid-1700s it was believed there were 20,000 active smugglers in Britain. Smuggling proved hard to stop because: Highway robbery happened frequently on the roads around London, and those ...