Vic Gatrell

Conspiracy on Cato Street (eBook, PDF)

A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tells the immensely dramatic but neglected story of one of the most sensational plots in British history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108985451
• Artikelnr.: 70909201

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.