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The Cato Street Conspiracy - Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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The Cato Street Conspiracy - Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato
Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty
minutes of setting out to assassinate the British cabinet. Five of
the conspirators were subsequently executed and another five were
transported for life to Australia. The plotters were a mixture of
English, Scots and Irish tradesmen, and one was a black Jamaican.
They were motivated by a desire to avenge the 'Peterloo' massacre
and intended to declare a republic, which they believed would
encourage popular risings in London and across Britain. This volume
of essays uses contemporary reports by Home Office spies and
informers to assess the seriousness of the conspiracy. It traces
the practical and intellectual origins of the plotters' willingness
to use violence; describes the links between Irish and British
radicals who were willing to take up arms; makes a contribution to
early black history in Britain; examines the European context to
events, and follows the lives and careers of those plotters exiled
to Australia. A significant contribution to our understanding of a
particularly turbulent period of British history, these
well-written essays will find an appreciative audience among
undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of British and Irish
history and literature, black history, and the related fields of
intelligence history and Strategic Studies. -- .
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