Cato Street Conspiracy

Event: Cato Street Conspiracy 

Date: 1820

Those double yellows is what
caught them out 

Key individuals: 

Arthur Thistlewood

What was it?

·     It was a plot to murder all of the cabinet and Lord Liverpool

·     The plotters fell into a police trap and 13 of them were arrested 

·     This was a decade after the assassination of Spencer Percifield 

·     5 individuals were executed and 5 were sent to Australia 

·     The conspirators were the Spenceans, a group set up in the name of Thomas Spence 

·     It was an act of pure revolution   

Evaluating the event:

·     This event was different in many ways, it was the first violence intended event. However, it was undertaken by middle class civilians and it was only a small section of extreme radicals, their views were not representative of the country in the same way that the other events were