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Guy Woolnough

Phone: 01782733758, 07791704441
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Location: Work: Darwin Building, Keele University
Home: Burton in Lonsdale, via Carnforth.
Role: PhD candidate, Criminology: supervised by Barry Godfrey and Helen Wells. Researching the policing of Victorian Cumbria, 1856-1902.

For many years, I taught history at secondary level. Since 2005, I have enjoyed a diverse “portfolio” career: I have worked on several education projects with Lancaster Girls Grammar and with Kendal Record Office. In 2008, I was awarded an MA in historical research at Lancaster University.

My interest in “bottom up” history has drawn me towards a study of crime and policing. I am studying how the rank and file police dealt with the problem of petty offending: drunkenness, vagrancy, criminal damage, petty theft, the crimes of the “residuum.” My focus is on what was happening at street level in Cumbria, to examine how the police interpreted orders from the Chief Constable and the magistracy, and how police and offenders interacted at the point where the miscreant and society collide, the point of greatest friction.

  • “Life on the Edge.” A PowerPoint based teaching resource for use in secondary schools, produced for and available from Kendal Record Office (Cumbria Archive Services). 2006