Enemies of the State
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Published on 24. January 2020
208 pages
978-1-78159-667-8 (ISBN)
Description
On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators-Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt-were hanged for high treason. Then they were decapitated in the last brutal act of a murderous conspiracy that aimed to assassinate Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet and destroy his government. The Cato Street conspirators matched the Gunpowder plotters in their daring-and in their fate-but their dark, radical intrigue hasnt received the attention it deserves. M.J. Trow, in this gripping fast-moving account of this notorious but neglected episode in British history, reconstructs the case in vivid detail and sets it in the wider context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
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M.J. Trow has written highly praised historical biographies as well as studies of true crime. He is also a very successful novelist.
Among his recent publications are lives of Boudicca, Vlad the Impaler, Kit Marlowe, the hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade, Captain William Morris, War Crimes: Underworld Britain in the Second World War and The Cato Street Conspiracy.
He has produced several best-selling accounts of criminal cases, in particular volumes on Derek Bentley, the Wigwam Murder and Jack the Ripper, but he is perhaps best known for his many novels which include the Lestrade and Maxwell series.
Among his recent publications are lives of Boudicca, Vlad the Impaler, Kit Marlowe, the hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade, Captain William Morris, War Crimes: Underworld Britain in the Second World War and The Cato Street Conspiracy.
He has produced several best-selling accounts of criminal cases, in particular volumes on Derek Bentley, the Wigwam Murder and Jack the Ripper, but he is perhaps best known for his many novels which include the Lestrade and Maxwell series.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- 1. Dinner at Lord Harrowby's
- 2. The Winter of Discontent
- 3. The Shadow of the Guillotine
- 4. Desperate Men and Desperate Measures
- 5. 'A Plot, a Plot! How they Sigh for a Plot!'
- 6. Pig's Meat
- 7. Oliver the Spy
- 8. Bloody Fields
- 9. Men of Colour
- 10. 'Dreadful Riot and Murder'
- 11. 'On a Charge of High Treason'
- 12. The Hand of Death
- 13. 'This is But the Beginning . . .'
- Plates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
