Violent London2000 years of riots, rebels and revolts
942.1 BLO
Bloom, Clive
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Violent London 2000 years of riots, rebels and revolts
/ Clive Bloom.
. — London : Pan, 2004.
xvii, 597 p., [16] p. of plates
A Desolation they called Peace: The Destruction of London in A.D. 60 -- 'Offence -- A Londoner': The Peasants' Revolt to Evil May Day -- 'We'll no need the Papists noo!': Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes -- Free-Born John: Levellers, Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women -- Murderous Fantasies: The Great Fire to the Popish Plot -- George's War: From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots -- The Ape-Like Irish: The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots, the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots -- 'Wilkes and Liberty': The Political Riot -- The United States of England: The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators -- Monster Rallies: The War with the Chartists, the 'Sally Army' and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London -- Persecuting Pigeons: Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday -- 'Good Old Dynamite': London's War with the Bombers -- Women Behaving Badly: The Suffragettes -- Huns and Hashish: The Yellow Peril to the German Pogrom -- Comrades All: Red London to Red Ken -- Brave Boys of the BUF: The Origins of London Fascism -- Not Quite Kosher: The Jews of London, Jeffrey Hamm and the Return of Oswald Mosley -- Alien Nation: Indian Assassins and Black Radicals -- The Tiber Flowing with Much Blood: Enoch Powell, Notting Hill and Hackney -- Like Rorke's Drift: Hackney, Brick Lane and Lewisham -- Anarchy in the UK: Private Armies, Vigilantes and the New Cross Fire -- Living on the Front Line: Brixton to Broadwater Farm; the Stephen Lawrence Case to the Soho Bomber -- One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?: Grosvenor Square to Moon at the Monarchy 2000 -- Back to the Future: Poll Tax Rebels and Tenant Strikers -- The Free Republic of Wanstonia: The Fight for London's Green Spaces -- Never Underestimate a Minority: Guerrilla Gardeners and the Countryside Alliance
