King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the London Riots of 1780 by Christopher Hibbert

King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the London Riots of 1780

Christopher Hibbert

208 pages first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative tense fast-paced
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The Duke of Newcastle, the great eighteenth-century prime minister once said 'I love a mob, I led a mob once myself. We owe the Protestant Succession to the mob'. Over half a century later the same sentiments applied as Lord George Gordon, a rabbl...

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