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

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gatrell, Vic, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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.