The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ian Haywood, John Seed

The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Ian Haywood, John Seed

273 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The Gordon riots of June 1780 were the most devastating outbreak of urban violence in British history. For almost a week large parts of central London were ablaze, prisons were destroyed and the Bank of England attacked. Hundreds of rioters were s...

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