Title Conspiracy on Cato Street A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (478 p.) Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Timeline -- A Note on the Text -- Part One The Simple Tale -- 1 The Cato Street Conspiracy: What Happened -- 2 Arrests and Reactions -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part Four Ordinary Britons -- 13 Conspirators and Others -- 14 Wives, Marriages, Children -- 15 Men of Colour: Wedderburn and Davidson -- Part Five The Executions -- 16 Trials and Verdicts -- 17 May Day at Newgate -- 18 Epilogue: Géricault Goes to Cato Street -- The People Listed -- Historiographical Note -- Trial Reports -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Tells the immensely dramatic but neglected story of one of the most sensational plots in British history Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820. SUBJECT Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820 fast Subject Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820. Revolutionaries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Treason -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Conspiracies -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Conspiracies Politics and government Revolutionaries Treason SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056821 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056909 Subject England -- London Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1108985459 9781108985451

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