Grab your passport because Scottish actor & writer Adam McNamara is taking us home and serving up some Scottish justice. It's the story of the first official, modern police force in the UK: The Glasgow City Police (back TF up, London).

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Adam McNamara is a Scottish Actor and Writer. Select stage credits include the National Theatre of Scotland’s acclaimed play Black Watch and the original West End cast of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, select screen credits include Black Mirror and Vikings among othaers . He is the playwright of Stand By, a multi-sensory play set in a police riot van which made it’s Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2017 and is currently developing and pitching a series based on the Glasgow City Police story.

Follow Adam at @ads2101 on Instagram and @AdamMcNamara77 on Twitter.

Our Lovely Guest, Adam McNamara (Photo Credit: Richard Rankin)

The Laigh Kirk, Trongate where The Glasgow Police first mustered

Plaque recognizing Glasgow Police est.

SOURCES:

Archibald, Malcolm. Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire. Black & White Publishing, 2014.

Berresford-Ellis, Peter, et al. The Radical Rising: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820. None, Birlinn, 2016.

Carmichael, A. The Casebook of Glasgow’s Victorian Detective. Honeyman and Wilson, 2011.

Craig, Maggie. Bare-Arsed Banditti. UK ed., Mainstream Publishing, 2010.

Glasgow City Council. “Police Officers.” Family History at the Mitchell, 2014, www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/ExploreRecords/Pages/Police-Officers.aspx.

The Glasgow Police Museum. “Glasgow Police History.” The Glasgow Police Museum, 2020, www.policemuseum.org.uk/glasgow-police-history/pre-1800.

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Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

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Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

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