Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

by Vic Gatrell

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108971458
• ISBN13: 9781108971454
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 475 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"