Stoke-on-Trent Murders and Misdemeanours

Stoke-on-Trent in the century between 1850 and 1950 witnessed huge changes. In the Victorian period the population in the area grew rapidly, attracted by the opportunities in the heart of the country's pottery industry, and 1910, a new borough of Stoke-on-Trent was formed from a confederation of six towns. Alongside the potteries, many more worked in coal mining, manufacturing or other heavy industries and wealth and poverty often lived close together. The local police force not only had to...