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  • Chapter 3 - Interpreting the Conspiracy

  • from Part Two - Taking Its Measure
  • Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Conspiracy on Cato Street
    Published online:
    06 April 2022
    Print publication:
    12 May 2022, pp 53-65

  • Summary

    The unusually rich evidence available on the conspiracy comes from near-daily spy reports to the home office, 350,000 words of question-and-answer evidence in trial reports, and dense newspaper reporting.It invites ‘thick description’ of the ‘real world’ of the conspiracy - that is, of the attitudinal, material, topographical, and domestic elements in the story which historians have hitherto evaded. Until now, both left- and right-wing historians have dismissed the story because it seems at first sight to have failed to advance the onward march of labour or the making of the working class.