Conspiracy on Cato Street

by Vic Gatrell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108838480
• ISBN13: 9781108838481
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"