‘Constable dances with instructress’: the police and the Queen of Nightclubs in inter-war London.

NIGHTCLUBS; INTERWAR Period (1918-1939); MEYRICK, Kate Evelyn Nason; GODDARD, George; HORWOOD, William T. F., 1868-1943; JOYNSON-Hicks, William; LEGISLATION; LAW enforcement; GREAT Britain. Metropolitan Police Office; HISTORY of London, England; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY

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The article discusses the policing of nightclubs in London, England, and what the author terms the nightclub campaigns during the interwar period. It examines the roles of London nightclub owner Kate Evelyn Nason Meyrick, former London Metropolitan Police sergeant George Goddard, and London police commissioner Sir William Thomas Francis Horwood in the London nightclub scene and law enforcement. It also discusses the campaign against nightclubs led by former British Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks. The article also discusses scholarship concerning the nightclub campaigns, legislation concerning the licensing of nightclubs, and Meyrick's incarceration.