Enemies of the State: The Cato Street Conspiracy

by M. J. Trow

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781596678
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

1 Dinner at Lord Harrowby's 1

2 The Winter of Discontent 11

3 The Shadow of the Guillotine 25

4 Desperate Men and Desperate Measures 39

5 'A Plot, a Plot! How they Sigh for a Plot!' 57

6 Pig's Meat 75

7 Oliver the Spy 87

8 Bloody Fields 99

9 Men of Colour 113

10 'Dreadful Riot and Murder' 127

11 'On a Charge of High Treason' 141

12 The Hand of Death 156

13 'This is But the Beginning...' 170

Notes 179

Bibliography 187

Index 188