Home Office

PDJ was a Principal at the Home Office in London, working on forensic science in the Police Department.

PDJ held the position of a Principal in the Home Office 's Criminal Policy Department, specialising in juvenile delinquency.

In this hospital she met Dr Karl Theodore Bluth , who was to remain her doctor as well as her mentor and father-figure until he died. He was the first person to understand that...

The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton , a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison ,

Since the first attempt had been prevented by Home Office suspicion that SB was an undesirable foreign prostitute taking this means to begin plying her trade in Britain, the best man on the second occasion...

The Home Office appointed the English Centre of PEN to report on the status of refugee writers who had been or could be interned. SJ and Hermon Ould undertook the bulk of this advisory work.

In addition to nursing, FS also engaged in rescue work in Oxford, and was among the first lady visitors to be appointed by the Home Office to visit Britain's prisons. She advocated humane treatment for...

On her release, CL 's next project was to turn her experience to good account for the suffrage cause by seeking an official enquiry into practices at Walton Gaol . She had a...

The Huxleys and an un-named barrister friend produced a man sympathetic to political refugees and willing to marry her for money: Terry Bedford. The couple met for the first time at the Albany in Piccadilly...

As the Great War rolled on ES found herself more and more of a pacifist. During her very few holidays from writing and from trying to keep the suffrage cause alive, she took jobs...

The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the...

It was this book that made James prosperous. She had already decided to retire early from her Home Office job, feeling with some anxiety that she could manage to live on her earnings from writing...

In this signed essay FPC argues that the law, instead of focusing on punishment for domestic violence, ought to remedy the enforced dependence of women on their abusers, rooted in the fact that a man's...

She had taken considerable trouble to find out what a bomb was made of, but having written this up she one day, when very tired, left her manuscript behind on the luggage rack of a...

For her fourth publication, PDJ co-authored her first book of non-fiction, The Maul and the Pear Tree: the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811, with T. A. Critchley , who was at that time her supervisor...