Conspiracy on Cato Street

A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

Conspiracy on Cato Street
Vic Gatrell
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Hardback
h235 x 158mm - 474pg
12 May 2022 UK
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9781108838481
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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.
' In his gripping new book, Vic Gatrell rescues the Cato Street conspirators from "the enormous condescension of posterity", and reconstructs in enthralling detail the world of low taverns, debtors' prisons and radical extremism from which they came. This is a brilliantly written masterpiece that triumphantly succeeds in restoring humanity and dignity to its subjects. ' Richard J. Evans, author of The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 ' Erudite, engaging and brilliantly wide-ranging, Vic Gatrell' s Conspiracy on Cato Street is peppered with revealing detail and is compulsively readable. This is historical scholarship at its very finest. ' Emma Griffin, author of Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy ' Vic Gatrell has brilliantly resurrected from obscurity the world of the conspirators who plotted to murder the British cabinet in February 1820. With unexampled forensic skill and psychological empathy he has provided a masterly exploration of proletarian London during the Regency. ' Jerry White, author of London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God
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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ISBN-13: 9781108838481
Published: 12 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 158mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 820g
Pages: 474

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