Vic Gatrell

Conspiracy on Cato Street (eBook, ePUB)

A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre the whole British cabinet at its monthly dinner. The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It ended in betrayal, arrest, and trial, and with five conspirators publicly hanged and decapitated for treason. Their failure proved the state's physical strength, and ended hopes of revolution for a century. Vic Gatrell explores this dramatic yet neglected event in unprecedented detail through spy reports, trial interrogations, letters, speeches, songs, maps, and images. Attending to the 'real lives' and habitats of the men, women, and children involved, he throws fresh light on the troubled and tragic world of Regency Britain, and on one of the most compelling and poignant episodes in British history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108982825
• Artikelnr.: 66182927

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.