The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this dramatic but neglected story with cinematic vividness, episodic range, and a tragic denouement that undermines our romantic fantasies about Regency England.
The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this dramatic but neglected story with cinematic vividness, episodic range, and a tragic denouement that undermines our romantic fantasies about Regency England.
Vic Gatrell is a professorial Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, who has taught for most of his career in the Cambridge Faculty of History. His previous books include The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People (1997) which was awarded the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society; City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (2009) which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize; and The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age (2013) which was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
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Part I. The simple tale: 1. The Cato Street conspiracy: what happened 2. Arrests and reactions Part II. 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 III. 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 IV. Ordinary Britons: 13. Conspirators and others 14. Wives, marriages, children 15. Men of colour: Wedderburn and Davidson Part V. Executions: 16. Trials and verdicts 17. May Day at Newgate 18. Epilogue: Géricault goes to Cato Street Historiographical note The trial reports.
Part I. The simple tale: 1. The Cato Street conspiracy: what happened 2. Arrests and reactions Part II. 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 III. 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 IV. Ordinary Britons: 13. Conspirators and others 14. Wives, marriages, children 15. Men of colour: Wedderburn and Davidson Part V. Executions: 16. Trials and verdicts 17. May Day at Newgate 18. Epilogue: Géricault goes to Cato Street Historiographical note The trial reports.
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