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Wait if Crimean war happened that means that Åland war happened too, that gives me excuse to play this
9037519
...yes just...yes all of it xD a classic really.
This has promise. Curious, is Spike like Flash's deputy or partner in this story?
9037846
Spike will have his part to play, it no he is not related to Flash's department.
9038347
That's too bad. Can you give me a hint at to what role Spike will play?
9039069
A hint? Well, to put in the current vernacular. Mister Spike is currently under the employ of up and coming industrialist Mister Light. Though his involvement with the business is quite vague. He does seem to play an important role to Mister Lights household staff as he is quite often seen with Mister Lights Daughter.
9040644
Ah. Vague but revealing at the same time.
Why isn't there a dark tag?
This story has an interesting premise, but you have not got the politics of Victorian Britain or the local government structure of 1870 London right. Of course Celestian London does not have to be identical to Victorian London, but if you want to bring them closer together I can point to a few details.
The UK has a parliamentary political system. The Prime Minister is not directly elected, but is the leader of the party with a majority in the House of Commons (which in the 19th century could be himself a member of the House of Lords). It would not be customary to refer to an election for Prime Minister. The normal reference would be to a Parliamentary election. It was usually obvious who was to become Prime Minister, but the Queen still retained discretion to select one of the leading figures. For example when Mr Gladstone retired in 1894 the Queen appointed the Earl of Rosebery as Prime Minister, Who would not have been the choice of the leading Liberals in the House of Commons.
There is a distinction between the City of London and the surrounding districts, which in 1870 were administered (insofar as they were) by the Metropolitan Board of Works and locally by bodies known as Parish Vestries. For completeness there were some districts with older local government bodies like the City of Westminster.
The MBW existed from December 1855 until the creation of the London County Council in March 1889.
The Lord Mayor had authority over the City of London but the city had refused to expand its boundaries as the surrounding districts became populous. Areas like Southwark (an ancient borough but with three seperate local bodies in the 1870s) and Whitechapel were not part of the City of London. The metropolitan districts were not combined into Metroplitan Boroughs until 1900.
The local government of the London area was a poorly co-ordinated mess. Major scandals with the MBW did not become apparent until the 1880s, but vague rumours of corruption seem to have existed earlier.
Please bear in mind that none of the local government bodies were elected on anything like a democratic franchise. London had not had the City Corporation reformed when the administration of the provincial cities was modernised in the 1830s, so its electorate remained limited to the members of the livery companies. The vestries had an oligarchic constitution.
The City of London had (and still has) its own Police force. The Metropolitan Police, covering the area around the city, was not responsible to the Lord Mayor, but to the Secretary of State for the Home Department (or Home Secretary) - a national government minister and one of the most senior political figures in the country.
A further point is referring to Shining Armor as an Inspector. That is a police rank. You seem to make him a Sherlock Holmes type character, but unless he was a former police
inspector he would not be referred to as such.
Hopefully some of this detail may be helpful.
9042082
Oh I dont I tend for this to get overtly dark. There's murder sure but I believe thats covered in the violence tag.
9042278
First things first, thank you for the review <3
Now as far as the poltics from what research I have done and the information you provided? I believe delving into the politics is a story all of its own. So I admittedly do not intend to delve as deep into the politics the mentioned here will be vague. However I will use the information provided to build more on the world. So to that end once more thank you, I’m very new to this period of history as I just recently started getting into it. I admit a big part of this was thanks to Assasins Creed Syndicate, and the database inside the game has helped me quite a bit in writing this story. I figured stream lining the politics will help keep the plot moving and not be stuck in bureaucracy. As for the prime minister “race” with the information you gave, I have a plan I’d like to run by you since you are clearly better informed than me. I’ll send it through private message if that’s okay with you.
9042278
Oh I forgot to address Flash being called inspector, honestly I am somwhat modeling him from Sherlock Holmes. He’s a private investigator and is called inspector less in rank and more as a title I suppose. Detectvie didn’t sound quite right in the time period and part of the world.
Happy to help.
The Metropolitan Police established a detective branch in 1842, with eight plainclothes officers. I am not sure what the rank structure was, but later practice was to preface an ordinary police rank with Detective (thus Detective Constable or DC, Detective Sergeant or DS and Detective Inspector or DI - I presume they would not have originaly needed the higher ranks that now exist). Another point to bear in mind is that there have been periodic scandals amongst London detectives over the generations.