Title Conspiracy on Cato Street : a tale of liberty and revolution in Regency London / Vic Gatrell

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022) 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 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. 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 LC no. 2021049191 ISBN 9781108974981 1108974988

Other Titles Tale of liberty and revolution in Regency London

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