The Clerkenwell Riot: The Killing of Constable Culley

Gavin Thurston

The Clerkenwell Riot: The Killing of Constable Culley
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 September 2021
Pages
188
ISBN
9781032030777

The Clerkenwell Riot: The Killing of Constable Culley

Gavin Thurston

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.

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