The Clerkenwell Riot: The Killing of Constable Culley

By Gavin Thurston

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1967, examines the implications of a now-forgotten minor riot that occurred in 1833, a turbulent year with the working classes striving for recognition in a changing social order. A political meeting in London had been declared illegal, the police breaking up the crowd were met with resistance, and in the fracas a policeman was stabbed to death. A bad-tempered inquest followed, at which the jury returned a verdict of justified killing - for which a section of the public hailed them as heroes. This analysis sets the crime and verdict against the political protests of the time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032030771
• ISBN13: 9781032030777
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages