Cato Street
Marylebone, London
In 1820 Arthur Thistlewood and his fellow radicals planned to burst into a Cabinet dinner and kill the government's leading ministers. But one of their group was a spy.
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- When
- 23 February 1820
- Where
- 51.5170, -0.1630
- Group
- Plots
Visiting
Cato Street is a quiet mews; a blue plaque marks the spot.
Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?
This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.
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