Amateur historians are not very good at contemporary history. By this I mean that we stand on the sidelines urging organisations to preserve their current stories for the future but, largely, we are powerless to capture the present. Of all the things that have occurred in the last decade the Sars-Cov 2 pandemic had a massive impact on policing (as it did on all aspects of life and death). We really could do with a project to record the stories and challenges of those involved in trying to police under dreadful circumstances. Are individual force history groups/societies working on this? I must find out. I don't think that anything is being done in respect of the British Transport Police. The Influenza epidemic that hit so hard just after the Great War made policing very difficult - but how difficult and how the issue was managed is not that well documented. There appears to be little about the impact on the railway police and passing...