Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

History 2148A/B

POLICE WORK AND FORENSICS IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN


Late Victorian Britain was the setting for Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional 'consulting detective,' Sherlock Holmes, whose afterlife in television and film would have astonished his creator. We examine Holmes' world. Our subjects include the nineteenth century obsession with murder and the history of policing and detection.

Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY A i  
Subject Code: HISTORY