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Gatrell, Vic, 1941- author.
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Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820.
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820.
Revolutionaries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Treason -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Conspiracies -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820.
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Conspiracy on Cato Street : a tale of liberty and revolution in Regency London / Vic Gatrell.
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Gatrell, Vic, 1941- author.
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects
Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820.
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820.
Revolutionaries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Treason -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Conspiracies -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820.
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9781108838481 (hardcover) :
1108838480 (hardcover)
Description:
xxiii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
pt. ONE THE SIMPLE TALE -- 1. The Cato Street Conspiracy: What Happened -- 2. Arrests and Reactions -- pt. TWO TAKING ITS MEASURE -- 3. Interpreting the Conspiracy -- 4. What They Were Up Against -- 5. What They Believed -- 6. Fantasy, Myth, and Song -- 7. Rebellion's Habitats -- pt. THREE THISTLEWOOD: HIS STORY -- 8. A Terrorist in the Making: 1774-1816 -- 9. The Spa Fields Insurrection: 1816-17 -- 10. Thistlewood Unhinged: 1818-19 -- 11. Peterloo in London: 1819-20 -- 12. Edwards the Spy: 1819-20 -- pt. FOUR ORDINARY BRITONS -- 13. Conspirators and Others -- 14. Wives, Marriages, Children -- 15. Men of Colour: Wedderburn and Davidson -- pt. FIVE THE EXECUTIONS -- 16. Trials and Verdicts -- 17. May Day at Newgate -- 18. Epilogue: Gericault Goes to Cato Street -- The People Listed -- Historiographical Note -- Trial Reports.
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"Well over a century ago Joseph Conrad gave the most modest of subtitles to The Secret Agent, his novel about London's late-Victorian anarchists. A Simple Tale of the Nineteenth Century, he called it. On the face of it, the story told in this book about an earlier, non-fictional group of terrorists in regency London is a simple tale too. It takes us up-close-and-personal to the conspirators who on the night of 23 February 1820 assembled in an obscure stable on the western edge of London in order to massacre the whole British government as it sat down to dinner in a Grosvenor Square mansion. This was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the state between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Irish Republican Army's Brighton bomb attack on Thatcher and her party in 1984. Had it succeeded it would have changed our world utterly"--
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