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

Author: Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 474 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...Read more